Your company has three offices. Each office contains servers that run Windows Server 2008 R2. The servers are configured as file servers. Users regularly travel between offices and require access to corporate data stored on file servers in their home offices.
You need to plan a data access policy for the users. The solution must ensure that users can access corporate data from a local server when they are traveling.
What should you include in your plan?
A. On all servers, install and configure Distributed File System (DFS).
B. On all servers install and configure the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) and the File Replication Service (FRS).
C. On one server, install and configure the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM). On the other two servers, install and configure the File Replication Service (FRS).
D. On one server, install and configure Distributed File System (DFS). On the other two servers, install and configure the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS).
Correct Answer: A
Explanation/Reference:
Distributed File System (DFS) Namespaces and DFS Replication offer simplified, highly-available access to files, load sharing, and WAN-friendly replication.
The Distributed File System (DFS) technologies offer wide area network (WAN)-friendly replication as well as simplified, highly-available access to geographically dispersed files. The two technologies in DFS are the following:
DFS Namespaces. Enables you to group shared folders that are located on different servers into one or more logically structured namespaces. Each namespace appears to users as a single shared folder with a series of subfolders. This structure increases availability and automatically connects users to shared folders in the same Active Directory Domain Services site, when available, instead of routing them over WAN connections.
DFS Replication. DFS Replication is an efficient, multiple-master replication engine that you can use to keep folders synchronized between servers across limited bandwidth network connections. It replaces the File Replication Service (FRS) as the replication engine for DFS Namespaces, as well as for replicating the AD DS SYSVOL folder in domains that use the Windows Server 2008 domain functional level.
