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USE DFS to replicate user shares

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Hello, I am an IT professional but have never done what I am about to ask and would like some seasoned opinions on if it is possible.

What I have currently:

A directory called usershares that contains all user home directories and other shares that get mapped as network drives

EXAMPLE: There is a Financial shared folder in the usershares directory that login script maps as the F: drive.  The folder bsmith would be mapped as Bob Smith's U: drive etc...  We do not use roaming profiles, these are just sahred folders

What I would like to do:

We have two domain controllers dc-01 and dc-02 and the usershares directory resides on one of them.  I would like to replicate that usershares directory to the 2nd domain controller so I can make the login script map drives as %logonserver%\usershares\username rather than \\dc-01\usershares\username

This would be so that if something caused dc-01 to be down, the login script would still map the user's drives to the 2nd server without IT intervention and the data would be current from the replication.  (except of course anything that was lost at the time the server went down)

I would like to know if anyone has successfully accomplished a similar setup and if they have any advice.  Or if it is even possible.  I do not want to turn these into a dfs root share,  i just want to replicate the existing shares and permissions to the other domain controller.  Any feedback is appreciated.


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