Hi all,
I've been asked to investigate the implementation of DFS replication. I have read a lot of the technet documentation and feel I I could implement DFS fairly quickly; although I might be completely wrong.
However, there seems to be some confusion in the office regarding how DFS works with folder structures. We have a main file server running 2008 R2 in HQ and a separate 2008 server file server in a warm DR site connected with a 20mb pipe. The main file server has a fairly standard structure; which is quite deep. For example we have an Operations root folder, within this there are 9 sub-departments and some of these sub-departments have even more sub-departments. Each folders permissions are strictly controlled through security groups in Active Directory (Server 2003) with an OU structure that mirrors the file system.
I was think of creating a replication group per department (at the root level) and then have the sub-department folders added to this. Some people in the office believe you cannot replicate the tree like folder structure on the DR server and that DFS creates a flat structure.
Can anyone confirm whether DFS would work in this scenario and whether I would need to manually create a mirrored folder structure with the NTFS security permissions on the DR server first?
Many thanks,
Mike