Proper DFSR Setup?

[Guest /u/The_Great_Sephiroth]

The last time I had to setup DFS was in 2003 R2 or 2008 R2, I forget which. I am now setting up a DFS for the IT staff at my new company. I went to our PDC (holds FSMO roles) and setup the DFS root. All DCs in this company (not setup by me) act like the old "Small Business Server (SBS)" from way back when. They do DHCP, DNS, AD, and host shares and sometimes software. Yes, I know it is horribly bad, but I am not allowed to change it, so let's move on.

 

Each DC has a separate D drive (RAID5 array on most of them) and I will be using the D drive for the DFS roots and shares. On the PDC I setup the DFS root and stopped. I know I have to setup replication separately but here is where I am foggy. Do I simply create folders in the root and replicate the DFS roots, or do I use DFS management to create a share which requires me to have a separate share or shares and then replicate said shares?

 

For example, all of the drivers for the various model systems we own will go into "\\company.lan\IT Shares\Drivers" so we can pull drivers at any site for any PC. Do I create "D:\Drivers" on the PDC, set sharing permissions and NTFS permissions, copy the drivers into the folder, go to DC2 and simply create the "D:\Drivers" folder and set share and NTFS permissions, then go to DFS management on the PDC, add the folder there, point it to both shares, and then setup replication on those two shares?

 

I am just looking for the proper procedure here. My gut (and foggy memory) says that I create a folder on the D drive for each sub-folder of "IT Shares" we want, share it, and then add it via DFS Management, but I am not sure. I could swear we did it a different way before.

 

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