One of the basic functions provided by enterprise IT is the hosting of file services in an organization. Since the early days of computer networks, having shared network locations to store and edit documents and other file resources has been a basic requirement.
As the need for file and network shares gain more and more momentum, IT admins in many enterprise IT environments found themselves managing numerous file shares, server names, network resources and such simply to manage files and network share resources across the organization. The management of a large number of network shares across different server resources can become very labor-intensive.
Microsoft introduced a solution to help organizations deal with and manage file shares across their organization to logically group them into a single hierarchical structure. The technology introduced is known as Distributed File System or DFS.
Read this article to know more about, what DFS is, how it works, requirements and considerations, best practices, and finally, how it is configured
