Managing DFS-N

In this section, you will learn about managing DFS-N using PowerShell. The DFS-N module that we just installed in the previous section comes with a large number of cmdlets for managing DFS-N. Throughout this section, we will make use of some of these cmdlets to perform the management of DFS-N.

You can view all the cmdlets in the DFS-N module using the following command:

Get-Command -Module DFSN

There are 23 cmdlets in this module that can help in performing various DFS-N operations. We will be using these modules to query, create, modify, and delete namespaces, DFS folders, and targets in following sections. You can refer to the TechNet page at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj884270.aspx to know more about these cmdlets.

Querying DFS namespaces

In this section, you will be learning how to query lists of namespaces in the domain environment and their configuration details. Lists of DFS-N roots in a domain environment can be queried using the Get-DFSNRoot cmdlet,...