Distributed File System
In an effort to create highly available file services that reduce end-user impact and simplify file server management, Windows Server 2012 includes the Distributed File System (DFS) service. DFS provides access to file data from a single namespace that can be used to represent a single server or a number of servers that store unique or replicated sets of the data. For example, when using DFS in an Active Directory domain, a DFS namespace named \\companyabc.com\UserShares could redirect users to \\FILESERVER1\UserShares or to a replicated copy of the data stored at \\FILESERVER2\UserShares.
Users and administrators both can benefit from DFS because they only need to remember a single server or domain name to locate all ...
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