Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Make DFS use FQDN

First, remove the server from the Namespaces

Launch powershell as an admin and run this:

Dfsutil.exe server registry dfsdnsconfig set <ServerName>



Reboot the server



Add to the namespace, if configured correctly, the server path will show up \\<ServerName>.<Domain> under the path in Folder Targets.

I recently added a third server to the DFS, and it didn't show up with .domain in the folder targets.  It did show up with its FQDN in Namespace Servers.

If your server is not displaying its FQDN in folder targets, and you've already followed the above steps, go to Replication, and go to the Replication Group.  Select the Replicated Folders tab, right click the folders, removing them from the namespace, right click and add them back.  Boom, server.domain FQDN populates for the new server.

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