Setting Specific Target DFS Environment

Setting Specific Target DFS Environment 

You can set a specific DFS-Target to be active but it won’t stick past the next logon I believe.

By default, the users will connect to the target in their 'site'

If you want to set a specific target as 'Primary" for everyone in a site

1.    Open up the DFS Management utility

2.    Open the Namespace the folder and target you wish to modify is under

3.    Select the folder you wish to control the targets on

4.    Right click on the target you wish to set as active

5.    Select the Advanced tab

6.    Check the "Override referral ordering" checkbox

7.    Select "First among all targets"

Edits:

This will allow users to Failover to other targets when needed.

It's also smart to enable the "Clients fail back to preferred targets" so if a user does fail over, they will switch back to the primary target once its back up.

You can also 'hard' control the targets by enabling/disabling them as needed. This works good when performing maintenance.