Healthy Replication is a must for active directory environment. SYSVOL folder in domain controllers contain policies and log on scripts. It is replicated between domain controllers to maintain up to date config (consistency). Before windows server 2008, it used FRS (File Replication Service) to replicate sysvol content among domain controllers. With Windows server 2008 FRS was deprecated and…
SYSVOL is a folder shared by domain controller to hold its logon scripts, group policies and other items related to AD. All the domain controllers in network will replicate the content of SYSVOL folder. The default path for SYSVOL folder is %SystemRoot%\SYSVOL. This folder path can define when you install the active directory.
Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 uses File Replication Service (FRS) to…
What is DFS?
The Distributed File System (DFS) is introduced by Microsoft Corporation with Windows NT operating system. The product is focused for addressing issues faces in File/Data sharing on networks environment.
After Windows NT, with every network operating systems that Microsoft had released were having DFS service by default. This service does not need any additional license apart from…
