You can increase the availability of a domain-based namespace by specifying additional namespace servers to host the namespace.
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To add a namespace server to a domain-based namespace |
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Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click DFS Management.
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In the console tree, under the Namespaces node, right-click a domain-based namespace, and then click Add Namespace Server.
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Enter the path to another server, or click Browse to locate a server.
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This procedure is not applicable for stand-alone namespaces because stand-alone namespaces support only a single namespace server. To increase the availability of a stand-alone namespace, specify a failover cluster as the namespace server in the New Namespace Wizard. |