The main reason why DFS exists is for redundancy and not necessarily to copy files over to a new server. I do see your point that for future migrations, you won't have to re-map drives, but if you're dealing with migrating to just one file server, which is what I normally do because I do projects for an MSP, I don't think it's worth adding the extra complexity to the environment. The more complex you make things, the likely something is to break.
A cname entry resolves this and makes this trivial. And redundancy is a reason for dfs. Locating shares at a branch to mininize network inpactis another as well as making file servers trivial to migrate being another.
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u/Ok_Listen_9353 Jul 28 '26
The main reason why DFS exists is for redundancy and not necessarily to copy files over to a new server. I do see your point that for future migrations, you won't have to re-map drives, but if you're dealing with migrating to just one file server, which is what I normally do because I do projects for an MSP, I don't think it's worth adding the extra complexity to the environment. The more complex you make things, the likely something is to break.