First published on TechNet on Jun 04, 2009
Hi, this is Bobby from the Microsoft Directory Services support team. Today we are going to discuss some confusing behavior that ...
Updated Apr 04, 2019
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Based on your posting I cannot tell if you are experiencing the same issue as I do. However, I can give you more detailed information which may help you confirm if your symptoms match. Kindly look at this post: "DFS Referral Cache Is Invalid and Not Automatically Refreshing" https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-server-for-it-pro/dfs-referral-cache-is-invalid-and-not-automatically-refreshing/m-p/3825405#M9834
That post clearly showing a problem (bug?) in the DFS-N referral cache for an updated DFS-N target folder. Deletion of the original target folder, and re-creation of the target folder, PLUS updating (or restarting) all clients' cache is the (very ugly) work-around.
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