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Set of client and server services by Microsoft

Distributed File System (DFS) is a set of client and server services that allow an organization using Microsoft Windows servers to organize many distributed SMB file shares into a distributed file system. DFS has two components to its service: Location transparency and Redundancy. Together, these components enable data availability in the case of failure or heavy load by allowing shares in multiple different locations to be logically grouped under one folder, the "DFS root". Wikipedia →

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📚 Books worth reading

Active DirectoryRobbie Allen, Joe Richards · 2003
Beowulf cluster computing with WindowsThomas Lawrence Sterling, Thomas Sterling · 2001
Professional MTS and MSMQ with VB and ASPAlex Homer, David Sussman · 1998
Concurrent programming on WindowsJoe Duffy · 2008
Sams Teach Yourself Windows DNA Programming in 21 DaysRockwell · 2003

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