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Yes DFS replication is supported on SBS 2008<br />
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source: &nbsp;<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sbs/cc817589.aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sbs/cc817589.aspx</a><br />
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Does Windows Small Business Server 2008 support Distributed File System (DFS) for data replication? <br />
DFS is built into Windows Server 2008 and is available in Windows Small Business Server 2008. If you want to use DFS you must use the technology-specific tools in Windows Server 2008 as there are no tools for configuring or managing DFS in the Administration Console.<br />

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Yes DFS replication is supported on SBS 2008

source:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sbs/cc817589.aspx [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sbs/cc817589.aspx]

Does Windows Small Business Server 2008 support Distributed File System (DFS) for data replication?
DFS is built into Windows Server 2008 and is available in Windows Small Business Server 2008. If you want to use DFS you must use the technology-specific tools in Windows Server 2008 as there are no tools for configuring or managing DFS in the Administration Console.


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Thanks,<br />
so just to confirm i can replicate from SBS 2008 to a WServer 2008 machine?<br />
And if the SBS 2008 machine dies, and i rebuild a new one, i can re-replicate the data back across?<br />
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Thanks
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Thanks,
so just to confirm i can replicate from SBS 2008 to a WServer 2008 machine?
And if the SBS 2008 machine dies, and i rebuild a new one, i can re-replicate the data back across?

Thanks

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Very quick and thorough response.<br />
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Thanks
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Very quick and thorough response.

Thanks

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Hi,<br />
I've been looking on the Internet and can't find a definitive answer.<br />
Can you have DFS-R on SBS 2008?<br />
I would like to have replication across 2 servers, on the same domain, one using sbs 2008 and the other using WServer 2008.<br />
The idea being if the SBS goes down then i can rebuild a new SBServer and then have the replicated data from WServer 2008 go back across.<br />
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Or do i need a second SBS 2008 Enterprise edition as a second DC to have this work properly?
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Hi,
I've been looking on the Internet and can't find a definitive answer.
Can you have DFS-R on SBS 2008?
I would like to have replication across 2 servers, on the same domain, one using sbs 2008 and the other using WServer 2008.
The idea being if the SBS goes down then i can rebuild a new SBServer and then have the replicated data from WServer 2008 go back across.

Or do i need a second SBS 2008 Enterprise edition as a second DC to have this work properly?

DFS-R on SBS 2008

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.