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AD Sysvol Staging / Staging area folders missing after migrated FRS to DFRS
Hi
Yes. It's works in this way by Microsoft design.
You don't need to create stagings folders again, actually, my recommendation is to keep in this way.
When you add / join a new DC in your domain, you will see that this new DC have all folders include staging and staging area. But even after that, both folders (staging and staging area) will NOT replicate to all DCs. The only way to have all folders again is to decom all "old" DCs and keep just the "new" DC. When I say new, I'm talking about all dcs joined after the migration to dfs.
So, chill, everything should be ok 🙂
Actually, you will not need staging folders. As far as I understood they are used to caching some files using frs replication for very specific cases. As you are now using dfsr should not be a problem. Believe me, it's weird to see the "missing folders" but everything will works just fine. So don't worry about that but make a plan to decom all yours olds DC and keep just the new one.
- Stangest thing is that freshly prepared 2022 domain and domain controllers and even added new DCs into the same domain which had FRS to DFRS migrated, HAVE staging folders configured so it would be very interesting to know - is it a bug from MS side or thing by design.