DFS question: What does "Set Active" mean on the DFS tab in windows server 2008

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_{Wednesday, May 1, 2013 5:49 PM}

When I logged into server and went to the DFS tab to check and see if it was replicating between two of the different shares. I saw one share marked as "Active"  What does that mean?

I also seen a button that said "Set Active"  I am guessing its related to my above question.

I am guessing its the root?  The directory that others pull from or something?   I tried to google that all over and could not find anything specific to this question which I found very odd.

All replies (3)

_{Thursday, May 2, 2013 6:30 AM ✅Answered}

If you have multiple folder targets in the namespace then the 'Set Active' button is how you change the current referral (at a client level).  Only enabled folder targets will be listed.  Users can choose a different server if they wish (maybe for performance reasons).

_{Friday, May 3, 2013 9:09 AM}

As Dai said, it is a quick way to manually change the current referral target.

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_{Wednesday, March 26, 2014 2:35 AM}

Hi Dai\Shaon,

How do we do this using command line, while the DFS tab is missing in the properties of a DFS folder?