From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: File System and Storage

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DFS troubleshooting

DFS troubleshooting

- Now you've got DFS deployed. You've got your replicas in for your different name spaces, so that you are geographically dispersed. You have your DFS target folders with DFS target replicas set up in your environment, and everything seems to be working fine. Now you either want to go out and you want to look at the current health of the environment, or maybe a user has complained that something appears to be slow, or they connected to a server yesterday and files were there and they made changes and they connected today and things aren't there. Things don't seem to be correct or right. Now we want to do a little bit testing on the Distributive File System to ensure that replication is occurring correctly, and also just to get a general health of what our DFS environment looks like. In looking at this, we have a couple tools, right, that we can use. We have a couple command line tools that we can use. We also have some graphical tools we could use to troubleshoot DFS. So in this…

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