Mahesh Unnikrishnan: In this article, let’s examine the read-only replicated folders feature introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2.
Consider the following scenario. Contoso Corporation has a replication infrastructure similar to that depicted in the diagram below. Reports are published to the datacenter server and these need to be distributed to Contoso’s branch offices. DFS Replication is configured to replicate a folder containing these published reports between the datacenter server and branch office servers.
The DFS Replication service is a multi-master file replication engine – meaning that changes can be made to replicated data on any of the servers taking part in replication. The service then ensures that these changes are replicated out to all other members in that replication group and that conflicts are resolved using ‘last-writer-wins’ semantics.
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