Windows® Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

3-4: Create the SMB and DFS Namespaces for User Data Stores

Solution overview

Type of solution	Guidance and scripts
Features and tools	DFS namespaces, shared folders
Solution summary	Design an SMB namespace and DFS namespace that will serve your organization's user data and settings requirements, and automate the creation of the namespaces for each user.
Benefits	Identify and thereby avoid common design mistakes that can increase the cost of supporting an agile environment.

Introduction

In the previous solution, we built the namespace for user data stores on the server—the physical namespace of NTFS folders. We learned that it could become necessary to separate user data stores into separate namespaces to support management that takes place at the NTFS ...