Taking advantage of Directory Services

With the upcoming release of Microsoft's enhanced NT Directory Services, Dfs will be able to take advantage the following additional functionality:

• Directory Services for storing existing administrative knowledge.
• LDAP as the protocol for updating and querying for Dfs knowledge.
• Directory Services store for providing root level fault tolerance in Dfs.
• Directory Services for keeping all participating machines in any Dfs root synchronized in their perception of the Dfs structure.
• Directory Services site topology for providing intelligent replica selection.
• Content Replication Service for keeping alternate volumes synchronized with one another.

Figure 8: For detailed object information, see Appendix 3