Distributed File System (DFS) has been around since Windows NT and comes in a variety of configurations and options. While DFS is available in standalone and domain configurations, this article will ...

A key feature in Windows 2000 Server is DFS, short for Distributed File System. DFS is handy because it lets you point all network drives, no matter what server they physically occupy, to a single ...

The moral here is that DFS-R is not a distributed database system. If you expect frequent simultaneous updates of files in your DFS target folders, then DFS may not be the best tool to use to provide ...

DFS Replication Management Pack for MOM Dfsradmin.exe WSS 3.0 DFS Management snap-in A, B, D. Windows Server 2008 DFS replication can be monitored using MOM’s DFS replication management pack or by ...

Editor’s Note: You may have noticed that we changed the name of this newsletter from “Windows Networking” to “Windows Networking Tips.” It’s a small change, but we feel it helps describe the kind of ...

(1) For replication of files across the Internet, see IPFS. (2) A distributed file system is software that keeps track of files stored across multiple servers or networks. When data are requested, a ...

Just about a year ago, I first mentioned TidyFS, a new, small distributed file system under development by Microsoft Research. Later this week at the Usenix '11 conference, Microsoft researchers ...