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Thought experiment
Configuring branch office access to corporate resources
In this thought experiment, apply what you've learned about this objective. You can
find answers to these questions in the “Answers” section at the end of this chapter.
You are the network administrator for TreyResearch.net. The company has a large
share of corporate training content, currently hosted on a single Windows Server
2012 R2 server in the main corporate datacenter. The share sits on a ReFS file system
to provide additional resiliency.
Users in the branch offices complain of poor video performance when watching
training videos, plus other users complain of slow access to other corporate
resources when several users are watching training videos.
1. What would you suggest as a solution to improve the ability of branch office
users to access corporate training resources? (Choose all that apply.)
A. Copy the current corporate training share to each of the branch offices.
B. Increase the bandwidth on the corporate wide area network (WAN).
C. Create a root DFS-N namespace and add the training share folder to the
namespace.
D. Move the share to an NTFS file system server to improve performance.
E. Set up DFS-R to branch office servers in a hub-spoke configuration with the
corporate office at the hub.
F. Set up DFS-R to the branch office servers in a mesh configuration.
2. All content is created in the main corporate headquarters, but the content
management and creation role is being expanded to include content from all the
branch offices. How does this affect the answer to question 1?
3. What steps can you take to improve the initial replication of data to the branch
offices?
Objective summary
■ The DFS-N and DFS-R roles can be installed on Windows Servers running full or
server-core installations and on an AD DS domain controller.
■ Windows Server 2012 added Windows PowerShell support for DFS-N.
■ Windows Server 2012 R2 added Windows PowerShell support for DFS-R.
■ Configure DFS-R scheduling and bandwidth usage to optimize WAN bandwidth while
providing an appropriate replication speed.