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Hi all,<br />
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We are looking do create a Failover for our DFS Namespace server. Is there a way to have DFS replicate the namespaces over to the second server so that if it turn off the primary it will fail over to the secondary and people will continue to access the shares.<br />
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Our current DFS Namespace server is Windows 2003 R2 64bit and the backup will have same OS. Meanwhile the 3 file servers are 2x Windows Server 2003 and 1 Windows 2008. <br />
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Any ideas?<br />
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Regards,
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Hi all,

We are looking do create a Failover for our DFS Namespace server. Is there a way to have DFS replicate the namespaces over to the second server so that if it turn off the primary it will fail over to the secondary and people will continue to access the shares.

Our current DFS Namespace server is Windows 2003 R2 64bit and the backup will have same OS. Meanwhile the 3 file servers are 2x Windows Server 2003 and 1 Windows 2008. 

Any ideas?

Regards,

DFS Namespace server Failover

The Microsoft Legacy Operating System topic includes legacy versions of Microsoft operating systems prior to Windows 2000: All versions of MS-DOS and other versions developed for specific manufacturers and Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions, and Windows Mobile.

Microsoft Legacy OS

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).