Windows® Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

2-18: Create an Effective, Delegated DFS Namespace

Solution overview

Type of solution	Guidance
Features and tools	DFS Namespaces
Solution summary	Address business and technical intricacies of DFS namespace design.

Introduction

If you are familiar with the DFS Namespaces feature, you can skip this overview. If you are not, let me introduce you to DFS Namespaces, a component I like to call "The Role Service Previously Known as Distributed File System (DFS) and Known Before That as Distributed File System (Dfs)."

As you'll discover in this solution, the benefits provided by the DFS Namespaces feature make it as close to a no-brainer solution as anything Microsoft has provided. DFS Namespaces—and DFS before it, and Dfs before it—have, since Windows NT 4.0, ...