The following operating systems include full support for DFS Namespaces, including support for client failback to the preferred folder target:
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista
Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate
- Windows Server 2003 R2
- Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
- Windows Server 2003 with SP2, or
SP1 and the Windows Server 2003 client failback
hotfix
- Windows XP Professional with SP3, or SP2
and the Windows XP client failback hotfix
These hotfixes are described in article 898900 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=53202).
Users who are running the following operating systems can access namespaces, but if a folder target becomes unavailable and then later comes back online, the computer will not fail back (return) to the preferred folder target.
- Windows Storage Server 2003
- Windows XP Professional
- Windows Preinstallation Environment
(Windows PE)
(Windows PE can access stand-alone namespaces, but it cannot access domain-based namespaces.)
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows 2000 Professional