This is actually covered in Microsoft's FAQ for DFS. The answer is, it depends. Mostly yes but not recommended if using replication. DFS-R is made for replicating mostly static files. Users' documents change a lot and DFS-R may not be efficient at replicating the changes.
This is actually covered in Microsoft's FAQ for DFS. The answer is, it depends. Mostly yes but not recommended if using replication. DFS-R is made for replicating mostly static files. Users' documents change a lot and DFS-R may not be efficient at replicating the changes.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dfs/dfsfaq.mspx#EWKAC See the question, "Can I use DFS with Offline Files and redirected My Documents folders?"
DFS Share can aggregate multiple shares in to a single logical tree (so it all appears as one directory structure).
For Example, take:
And make:
They can also be the target of client folder redirection.
And they can do a whole lot more...
if you have multiple sites dfs and multiple targets folder redirection can cause issues if the sites are not done correctly.