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Ashish Gupta's avatar
Ashish Gupta
Copper Contributor
Apr 07, 2017

DFSR delete the file before replication

Hi,

 

In our environment, we have two sites and both sites have two files servers. Like,

Site 1 - ServerS101, ServerS102

Site 2- ServerS201, ServerS202

 

With this, there are three replication groups which I have created. It was all working fine till last month, but all sudden it has started showing some problems. 

 

Let say, there is replication group and all fours servers are the member of it. I create a new excel file on one server and it replicates to other member servers without any problem. But, if I edit the same file, then first it deletes the file from all member servers and then replicates the updated file on all member servers.

 

As far as i know about DFSR behavior, if a file gets updated, then it replicates only the updated content on all other member servers without deleting the existing file.

 

Please help me in fixing this problem and let me know if you need more information.

 

Thanks,

Ashish

  • NedPyle's avatar
    NedPyle
    May 03, 2017

    RDC is not involved here. The behavior you are describing is an interop problem between application behaviors in Office and with DFSR. Office operates differently than almost any user app on Earth in how it constantly locks, swaps, replaces files. 

     

    Did recreating file servers (I don;t know what this means) solve the issue? You need to reopen this case, MS Support should not have closed it, they should have escalated it.

     

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