On a server 2008 R2 box I setup a DFS folder folder in a namespace and then manually setup it up for replication in the "replication" node of the DFS console. Now when I go to the "Replication" tab for the folder target in the "Namespaces" node it says "Replication Status: Not configured", but I checked replication for this folder is configured and it is working.
Googling around I found a post on a forum from someone with what appeared to be a similar problem on a 2003 R2 server. He was told the following:
Link to forum post: http://www.mombu.com/microsoft/windows-server-dfs-and-frs/t-r2-dfs-namespacereplication-and-administration-possible-bug-or-by-design-362827.html
"When a DFS Folder is configured to be replicated from the DFS Management UIor when a replicated folder is "published" to a DFS Namespace then the
metadata for the replicated folder is tagged to show which DFS Namespace is
it published in. It is this tag that the DFS Management tool searches when
determining if a DFS Folder targets are replicated. If this tag does not
exist then the UI does not know that the folder targets are being
replicated. This is done mainly for performance reasons. Without this
approach the UI would need to contact each individual folder target to
determine its replication status before showing the folders in the UI. This
would become extremely slow on any reasonably large DFS Namespace.
Please see the following KB article which gives some additional details and
resolution steps: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=911255"
Following the above link I tried disabling and enabling both the folder target and the replicated folder, but to no avail. I do not want to have to remove and re-create this DFS folder. How can I get the replication tab in the DFS Namespaces node of the DFS console to see that this folder is being replicated?