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The purpose of creating a DFS Namespace Management job is to allow you to manage various activities related to DFS namespaces, such as creating a namespace, creating namespace folders, and adding folder targets.  A DFS namespace enables you to group shared folders located on different servers into one or more logically structured namespaces.  DFS namespace activities can be performed using a Microsoft tool; however, the benefits of creating and configuring namespace within the Peer Management Center are:

•Ease of managing a namespace - You can create and manage a namespace within the same interface that manages our synchronization and collaboration technologies. This removes the need to use two different tools to manage the key elements of multi-site and multi-vendor file services.

•Integration with Synchronization and Collaboration - When combined with PMC's file synchronization technology, DFS namespaces can provide redundancy to file shares across file servers and locations.

•Automating failover and failback - If a file server goes offline, the PMC will disable the associated folder target in DFS namespace.  This automatically redirects users to another available file server.  When the original file server comes back, the PMC will automatically make sure it is brought back in sync, and then enable the associated folder target so users can once again connect to it.  See DFS Namespace Failover and Failback in Advanced Topics for more information.