<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
Hi,<br />
<br />
I've just taken over at a new company and they've got two locations and they're using roaming profiles on a Server 2008 R2 domain with Windows 7 Clients. <br />
<br />
They've got a DFS namespace in place but no DFS replication. The namespace is merely consolidating network paths.<br />
<br />
The way I'm going to sort the user profile issues is to use UE-V. I can specify a group policy for the network path the UE-V personalisation settings based on location e.g Computers in Site A look at \\sitea-server\UEVShare to get their policies. whilst Site B users have a policy set on their site which looks at \\siteb-server\UEVShare to get theirs.<br />
<br />
What the ideal setup would be is just \\domain.com\DFSShare-UEV to allow both sites to use this namespace so I could use one policy, and each site would look at the copy at their site (little cost). The question here is the DFS replication bidirectional? Could a user logon in Site A make some changes and then would it have replicated by the time they got back to SIte B (2 hr train)?<br />
<br />
Thoughts welcome!<br />
<br />
Cheers!<br />
<br />
Jack
</div>
</div>


Hi,

I've just taken over at a new company and they've got two locations and they're using roaming profiles on a Server 2008 R2 domain with Windows 7 Clients. 

They've got a DFS namespace in place but no DFS replication. The namespace is merely consolidating network paths.

The way I'm going to sort the user profile issues is to use UE-V. I can specify a group policy for the network path the UE-V personalisation settings based on location e.g Computers in Site A look at \\sitea-server\UEVShare to get their policies. whilst Site B users have a policy set on their site which looks at \\siteb-server\UEVShare to get theirs.

What the ideal setup would be is just \\domain.com\DFSShare-UEV to allow both sites to use this namespace so I could use one policy, and each site would look at the copy at their site (little cost). The question here is the DFS replication bidirectional? Could a user logon in Site A make some changes and then would it have replicated by the time they got back to SIte B (2 hr train)?

Thoughts welcome!

Cheers!

Jack

DFS Replication &amp; UE-V

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

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.

Windows Server 2008

A server is a computer program or a machine that waits for requests from other machines or software (clients) and responds to them. This architecture is called the client–server model. The clients may run on the same computer or may connect to the server over a network. The purpose of a server is to share data or hardware and software resources among clients. Typical computing servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers.

DFS Replication &amp; UE-V

DFS Replication & UE-V