text: 1. New Command Line Interface (CLI)
  DFSUtil.exe in Windows Server 2008 comes with a new CLI, which is based on Keywords, Required Parameters and Optional parameters instead of Switches and Arguments. With this change, we intend to make the usage of the commands clearer and easier.
  Navigation through Keywords is more friendly, giving the information needed to execute a task.
  An example of this:
  To create the new Domain-Based Namespace Projects which is going to have a Root Target at the Server NewYork, with the old CLI the user had to type
  DFSUtil.exe /AddFtRoot /Server:\\NewYork /Share:Projects /Comment:”Projects in New York”
  With the new CLI
  DFSUtil.exe Root AddDom \\NewYork\Projects “Projects in New York”
  The new CLI not only gives the necessary information for the task to be executed, but display hints to help resolve tasks related as in when you are creating a namespace you would like to add root targets to it.
  2. New features in DFSUtil.exe
  Creation of Windows 2008 mode Domain-based namespaces.
  DFSUtil.exe Root AddDom \\Server\Share <Version> <Comment>
  For Version you can choose:
  V1: Windows 2000, Windows 2003 mode namespace.
  V2: Windows 2008 mode namespace.
  DFSUtil.exe Root AddDom \\contoso.com\DomainNamespace “This is a V2 Namespace!!”
  Add and remove Links
  DFSUtil.exe Link Add <DFSPath> \\Server\Share [Restore] <Comment>
  DFSUtil.exe Link Remove <DFSPath>
  DFSUtil.exe Link Add \\contoso.com\DomainNamespace\Link \\Server\Share “This a new link”
  Display and/or change the state of Roots and Links
  DFSUtil.exe Property State <DFSPath> \\Server\Share
  State commands:
  Online: Set state of link or link target to Online
  Offline: Set state of link or link target to Offline
  DFSUtil.exe Property State \\contoso.com\DomainNamespace\Link
  DFSUtil.exe Property State Online \\contoso.com\DomainNamespace\Link
  Display and/or change TTL
  DFSUtil.exe Property TTL <DFSPath>
  TTL commands:
  Set: Set the Timeout value of a DFS namespace or DFS link.
  DFSUtil.exe Property TTL Set <DFSPath> <Value in ms>
  DFSUtil.exe Property TTL Set \\contoso.com\DomainNamespace 3000
  Resolve DFS path to a destination UNC path
  DFSUtil.exe Diag ViewDFSPath <DFSPath>
  DFSUtil.exe Diag ViewDFSPath \\contoso.com\DomainNamespace
  Display and/or Set Registry Configuration Parameters in Server and Clients
  For Server
  DFSUtil.exe Server Registry
  Registry commands:
  DFSDNSConfig: Set/Reset/View DFSDNSConfig key
  LDAPTimeoutValue: Set/Reset/View LDAPTimeoutValueInSeconds key
  SyncInterval: Set/Reset/View SyncIntervalinSeconds key
  SiteCostedReferrals: Set/Reset/View SiteCostedReferrals key.
  InsiteReferrals: Set/Reset/View InsiteReferrals key.
  PreferLogonDC: Set/Reset/View PreferLogonDC key
  For Client:
  DFSUtil.exe Client Registry
  Registry commands:
  ProviderCacheTimeout: Set/View the ProviderCacheTimeoutInMinutes key.
  DFSDCNameDelay: Set/Reset/View the DFSDCNameDelay key.
  Enable/Disable Access Based Directory Enumeration (ABDE) in the Domain-based/Standalone namespace.
  DFSUtil.exe Property ABDE<DFSPath>
  DFSUtil.exe Property ABDE \\contoso.com\DomainNamespace
  Manage Security attributes on DFS Links
  DFSUtil.exe Property ACL <DFSPath>
  ACL commands:
  Grant: Grant permissions for a user or group.
  Deny: Deny permissions for a user or group.
  Revoke: Revoke granted permissions for a user or group.
  Set: Set Security Information on the folder from SDDL input
  Reset: Remove the Security Descriptor associated with the link.
  Control: Set Security control information on the link.
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  P.S.: See also this post with a complete reference of the DFSUTIL command-line:
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  Hi, Nelson,
  Quoting Ganesh in the dfs_frs newsgroups:
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  Thanks for reporting this issue. This is a know issue in dfsutil.
  As a work around please use dfscmd /map to create links in dfs namespace.
  Thanks
  Ganesh
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  Hope it helps,
  –Malu
  Ask the Directory Services Team : Five Common Causes of “Waiting for the DFS Replication service to retrieve
  Can you tell me if there is a CLI for building DFS replication?
  It looks like when using the "DFSUtil link add" command, it puts everything in lowercase when it creates the link. For example:
  dfsutil link add "\Mydomain.priLinksTestThis is A Test" "\fileserver1shareThis is A Test"
  The DFS link it creates is "this is a test" instead of "This is A Test".
  This is quite anoying, and frankly I don’t understand why it would even do this. Is there a work around for this?
  Hi
  I have a problem with my DFS setup running Windows Server 2008. It’s Active Directory integrated.
  If a client doesn’t have our fqdn as as dns search suffix the client cannot resolve the dfs. I guess this is due to the server replying with the netbios name instead of the dns name. I’ve set the DFSDNSConfig to 1 on both my dfs servers, but I am unsure if I need to delete the whole namespace and create it again as this article describes for Win2003.
  Can any of you guys point me in the right direction?
  Thanks
  Sebastian
  DFSUtil in Windows Server 2003 VS DFSUtil in Windows Server 2008 1. New Command Line Interface (CLI) DFSUtil.exe in Windows