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CentrexIT Determine if a Server is Running FRS (File Replication Services) /DFRS (Distributed File System Replication)

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Jeremy Lechuga Work Instruction 1 min
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Published May 2, 2025Expires Jan 9, 2027

File Replication Service (FRS) was introduced in Windows 2000 to replicate the System Volume (SYSVOL) directory across several servers. You may see this on a file server as \\server\SYSVOL. FRS is a multi-master, multi-threaded replication engine that isn’t very efficient, since any time a file changes, it replicates the complete file instead of limiting the replication to only the changed blocks.

Distributed File System Replication (DFSR or DFS-R), introduced in Windows 2008 replaces FRS as the default replication engine. DFS-R had many improvements over FRS including the introduction of block-level replication using Remote Differential Compression (RDC).

On the Domain Controller, open command admin and run command: dfsrmig /getmigrationstate

If it says “eliminated”

The DC is on DFSR.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/dfsrmig