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Configure DFS replication

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Configure DFS replication

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- [Instructor] DFS Replication provides a way to keep folders synchronized between servers across both well-connected, as well as limited bandwidth connections. So here I'm on MEMBER-1 in the DFS Management tool and I have already setup the namespace, DemoDFSShare, as well as a couple of folders, Demo1 and Demo2. And if you want to follow along it is a prerequisite that this has to be in place, as well as having the two member servers both up and running with DFS services. If I click on Demo2, you can see here that it right now has one target which is it's being hosted on member-1. But let's say we want to go ahead and host it in more than one location, for some level of redundancy. Well I'm going to right click on Demo2 and say I want to add an additional folder target. So I'm going to go ahead and say I want to put in on member-2 and we'll call the share demo2 and click OK. And it tells me, hey this share doesn't exist, are you sure you want to create it, yeah I do. And I need to…

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