First published on TechNet on Jan 22, 2009
Ned
here again. The cat is out of the bag now and we're a little more free to talk about DFSR features that are planned (not guaranteed -
planned
) to release with Windows Server 2008 R2. Our friends at the File Cabinet blog have posted an excellent writeup - definitely worth a look:
DFS Replication: What’s new in Windows Server™ 2008 R2
Here's the short and sweet list of areas that were added or improved:
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Support for Windows Failover Clusters
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Read-only Replicated Folders (now with true filter driver support)
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SYSVOL on Read-only Domain Controllers (leveraging the improved Read-only functionality)
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Diagnostics Improvements (DFSRDIAG adds support for replication state, record translation, and file hash checking for pre-seeding)
You can try all these out in a test environment right now - hurry up and
grab the ISO's
before it's too late.
- Ned 'The Short Simpson' Pyle
