Guest Jeff Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 If I am only allowing one terminal session, is there an easy way to setup DFS replication of our roaming profiles for backup purposes? And if this is possible is it not a good idea to point roaming profile locations to an Active Directory share setup as a DFS namespace instead of to a direct server share. If this is possible, on the event that the server housing the roaming profiles goes down I could redirect to a server that was part of the replication. Any articles or ideas on this?
Guest Helge Klein Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: DFS replication and TS profiles You mentioned two different things - DFS Namespaces and DFS Replication. Let's start with the easier one: DFS Namespaces: It is no problem whatsoever and I even recommend building one single DFS namespace which contains, among many others, the network shares for your user's home and profile folders. Now to DFS replication: You _can_ use DFS-R for backup purposes of roaming user profiles as long as you make sure that profiles are not changed on both sides simultaneously. As you want to use DFS-N for redundancy you cannot restrict write access to the second (backup) copy. I find it problematic, even if you restrict every user to one session, to combine DFS-N and DFS-R for user profiles. I would not do it. For redundant file shares it is better to use a cluster. I hope this helps. Helge On 18 Jul., 15:14, Jeff <J...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > If I am only allowing one terminal session, is there an easy way to setup DFS > replication of our roaming profiles for backup purposes? And if this is > possible is it not a good idea to point roaming profile locations to an > Active Directory share setup as a DFS namespace instead of to a direct server > share. If this is possible, on the event that the server housing the roaming > profiles goes down I could redirect to a server that was part of the > replication. > > Any articles or ideas on this?
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