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Are you using DFS? &nbsp;i.e. you have a replication topology set-up and have enabled mirrored shares?
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Are you using DFS?  i.e. you have a replication topology set-up and have enabled mirrored shares?

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Yes, it was working yesterday.
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DFS service won't start. &nbsp;Error code is 216 0xd8: &nbsp;DFS replication service cannot be started on local computer.
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DFS service won't start.  Error code is 216 0xd8:  DFS replication service cannot be started on local computer.

DFS service won't start

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).