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Remote site replication with Microsoft Distributed File System


Why use Microsoft DFS

The ABC-Deploy installation sources, status data etc. must reside on a shared location on the network, where every managed clients must have access.

The shared location might be a traditional Windows share, but if you descide to locate the system on a DFS share, you will benefit from a range of advantages

One of those will be the ability to allow your software library to grow dymanically in size, which it is very likely to do over time

Another important issue is that if you are to support a distributed environment, possibly over slower WAN lines, you will be able to ensure your remote clients as good and stable a nework performance as if they were located in HQ

With DFS you clients will always get its deployment ressources from the Windows server best suited to provide data to the present location of the client computer