Publish data using DFS Replication

Applies To: Windows Server 2003 R2

To publish data using DFS Replication, create a replication group and choose a hub-and-spoke topology with either one or two hub servers (for redundancy). In this topology, you can add data to the hub server, and the data replicates out to the spoke servers. Use the following procedure to create a replication group:

• Create a replication group

To customize the replication group, use the following procedures as appropriate:

• Edit the replication group schedule

• Create or edit a custom connection schedule

• Enable or disable replicating a replicated folder on a specific member

• Enable or disable RDC for a specific connection

• Edit the replication filters for a replicated folder

• Edit the quota size of the staging folder and Conflict and Deleted folder

After you configure the replication group, you can create a namespace to enable clients to fail over to the hub server if the branch server fails or otherwise becomes unavailable. You can also configure the namespace so that clients fail back to the branch server after it is restored.

To configure a namespace for publication, use the following procedures in the order specified:

1. Publish a replicated folder in an existing namespace

2. Set the ordering method for targets in referrals

3. Enable client failback