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new-DFSrGroup

New-DFSRGroup This function contains pretty much everything about dfs-r groups.  When you create a replication group from the GUI, have you ever noticed the steps that complete on the page after you click create? Ever paid any attention to what they are actually doing? Me neither, until I started looking at this new-dfsrgroup function.  Assuming that there are 2 members to the replication group and all parameters have been entered, my function calls dfsradmin no less that 9 times to complete the task. So how can we use the function?  here are some examples.... new-dfsrgroup -name "rg2" -description "desc1" -Servers server1,server2 -folderpath e:\data\users -foldername Users This command will invoke every part of the function and create a fully meshed replication group.  Out of the parameters presented, only name and servers are mandatory.  If you were to omit foldername eg :  new-dfsrgroup -name "rg2" -description "desc1" -Se...

Filesystem 0.99 update (DFS-R!)

Filesystem Update  Another update / bug fix for my module Filesystem. The latest release can be downloaded here . For more info on the module see here . In update v0.99, DFS-r management has been released...with a couple of other changes : NOTE: dfsradmin.exe is required to be installed for the DFSR functions to work Updated list-DFSRoots has been renamed to get-dfsroots due to list not being on the approved verb list (an alias exists to redirect list-dfsroots to get-dfsroots for now) list-DFSLinks has been renamed to get-dfslinks due to list not being on the approved verb list (an alias exists to redirect list-dfslinks to get-dfslinks for now) get-NTFSPermission - fixed issue with inherited only permissions   New DFS-r functions add-dfsrGroupMember disable-dfsrGroupMember enable-dfsrGroupMember get-DFSrGroup get-dfsrGroupConnection get-DFSRGroupfolder get-dfsrGroupMember new-DFSRgroup new-dfsrGroupConnection new-dfsrGroupFolder new-dfs...