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This article lists the hotfixes that are currently available
for users who have installed the Distributed File System (DFS) technologies on
a Windows Server 2008-based computer or on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based
computer.
This article lists Microsoft Knowledge Base articles that
describe the fixes. If you have installed DFS technologies on a Windows Server
2008-based computer or on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer, we recommend
that you review and install the hotfixes that are described in the "More
Information" section.
Note The two technologies in DFS are DFS Replication and DFS
Namespaces.
The DACL of a DFS link is corrupted in Windows Server 2008, in Windows Vista, in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 if you use the Dfsutil.exe utility to export DFS configuration data from the DFS link
This hotfix contains the most current version of Dfssvc.exe for Windows Server 2008 R2.
To install this hotfix, you must have Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 installed.
Changes that are not replicated to a downstream server are lost on the upstream server after an automatic recovery process occurs in a DFS Replication environment in Windows Server 2008 R2
This hotfix adds the ability to enable or disable automatic recovery of DFSR databases via a registry value in Windows Server 2008 R2.
To install this hotfix, you must have Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed.
DFS Replication does not use Remote Differential Compression (RDC) when replicating very large files on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2
If you have a version of dfsrs.exe installed that is newer than 975763, you do not have to install this hotfix. However, you must still enable the registry change that is specified in 975763 for the new behavior to take effect.
To install this hotfix, you must have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed. This hotfix is available for individual download and is included in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.
You cannot perform a system state restore in the Directory Service Restore mode on a read-only domain controller that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 if DFS Replication is used to replicate the SYSVOL folder
This hotfix contains the most current version of Dfsrro.sys.
To install this hotfix, you must have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed. This hotfix is available for individual download and is included in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.
The DFS Replication Management Pack shows alerts for cluster network names that are in the “healthy” status on a Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster
This hotfix contains the most current version of Dfsrclus.dll.
To install this hotfix, you must have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed. This hotfix is available for individual download and is included in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.
Some folders or files are unexpectedly deleted on the upstream server after you restart the DFS Replication service in Windows Server 2003 R2, in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Server 2008 R2
This hotfix contains the most current version of Dfsrs.exe for Windows Server 2008.
To install this hotfix, you must have Windows Server 2008 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 SP2 installed. This hotfix is available for individual download.
A Windows Server 2003- or 2008-based computer becomes unresponsive because the paged pool memory is exhausted when an application calls the GetFileAttributesEx and MoveFileEx functions on lots of files
This hotfix contains a version of Ntfs.sys that addresses an issue in which antivirus software and NTFS can subsume USN updates. In this scenario, DFSR stops working.
To install this hotfix, you must have Windows Server 2003 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 SP1 installed. This hotfix is available for individual download and is included in Windows Server 2008 SP2.
Error
message when you run Dfsradmin.exe to set membership properties in Windows
Server 2008: "The property MemberSubscriptionReadOnly cannot be used"
This hotfix resolves an issue
with setting membership properties by using the Dfsradmin.exe command line tool.
To install this hotfix, you must have Windows Server 2008 SP1 installed. This hotfix is available for individual download and is included in Windows Server 2008 SP2.
Data loss occurs after you use the Dfsrmig.exe tool to migrate the SYSVOL share from the FRS to the DFSR service in a Windows Server 2008-based domain
This hotfix contains the most current versions of Dfsrdiag.exe and Dfsrmig.exe if you do not have Windows Server 2008 SP2 installed.
To install this hotfix, you must have Windows Server 2008 installed. This hotfix is available for individual download and is included in Windows Server 2008 SP2.
For more information about currently available hotfixes for
Distributed File System (DFS) technologies in Windows Server 2003 and in
Windows Server 2003 R2, click the following article number to view the article
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
958802
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958802/
)
List of currently available hotfixes for Distributed File System (DFS)
technologies in Windows Server 2003 R2