From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Network Services

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Overview and installation

Overview and installation

- One of the features that Microsoft introduced in the WIndows 2000 environment was a product called DFS, or the Distributed File System. The ability of us, as administrators, to put a centralized location for users to use as a, basically, an information booth to be able to go find resources throughout the organization. So as a DFS administrator, I can put in a re-director, or a link, so when a user came in looking for a sales folder, or marketing folder, or production folder, I could redirect them out to the appropriate server that had the resource on it so the user didn't have to go find that resource manually. DFS has changed quite a bit over the years. First of all, with DFS in Server 2000, a lot of people didn't use it because there's some inherent issues with it. You may have heard about this thing called the '1K Phantom Link'. This link that would go into your DFS server, whichever was your root server, and it would go in and replicate itself and just fill up your hard drive…

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