The DFS Management GUI Andy Mac 10.07.2007 13:28:01 General observations after (eventually) successfully deploying DFS R2 over the last month :- DFS in general - good, and infinitely better then the previous incarnation which we seldom touched because... well, it didn't work. Nice REPLICATION - excellent Wizard to setup replication and very efficient operation, certainly on the site I have just implemented. The odd hiccup around event log messages but on the whole, I'm impressed. Which leads me on to ...... EVENT LOGS - Help on the forums regularly needed; several messages lead to the Help and Support "We're Sorry" nicety ...... MOM would have been useful here where we would have been able to create our own entries based on investigation. DOCUMENTATION - in dire need of some consolidation from MS in relation to what is relevent to each version of DFS. Very confusing and not easy to navigate. Also, I found that whilst working with DFS R2 / SP2 it was not always helpful being referred to a document called "How DFS works" which was written in 2003. GENERAL SUPPORT ISSUES - using this forum as a gauge, it seems lots of people suffer form the same issues. Jill and Ned (and others) seem to answer many queries (thanks) but many constantly remain "in the air" HOTFIXES / SERVICEPACKS - nearly broke my implementation here with incorrect guidance on installing some unpublished hotfixes. Hope this is made more logical if they (MS) ever get round to publishing them The GUI ! ! !- as I have just explained to MS I find some parts of the GUI downright WRONG. If they are not wrong (quite possible - I am no DFS expert !) then they are clearly confusing, unnecessarily duplicated and certainly counter-intuitive. I refer specifically to parts relating to Referral Ordering, Failback and Inheritence. Real-life has constantly contradicted the docs in these areas even after a multitude of attempts to RTFM ! ! As the message suggests, these are comments only based on my humble opinion. They are not an attempt to belittle MS or the DFS team. I have found PSS to be particualrly helpful at times. -- 200 characters max !