Howdy folks,
I'm looking to patch a couple of Windows servers running a DFS namespace, partly because they're out of date, and partly because I'm vaguely hoping the patches may fix some performance issues. I've hit a bit of a wall in terms of what the best procedures may be however, and I need a bit of help.

• Should I be upgrading the servers one at a time, a week or so apart? Would that be ok, or would it confuse DFS even more?
• Should I temporarily turn off replication while doing all this?

Help a confused alien  :-( Thank you!

I don't get what Windows servers have to do with sofas.

Interest free servers?

You should be able to patch them one at a time, but if you're having problems already I think I'd disable replication and take the cautious route.

Think I'll wait for a sale.

You shouldn't have to wait long.

Thanks Dan; not real problems as such, it just seems to be rather slow at coping with updates to the files - if you, say, add a 200MB file or delete a few hundred files, it will become rather slow for a while (half a minute maybe? Maybe less?) while it catches up. It's not usually an issue, but these things tend to happen near market open and close when a load of files are read & updated, so the issue just compounds itself.

We could of course not use DFS anymore, but it's so easy and convenient...

True, there's always SCS instead.