Standalone Namespace. Cant seem to work out what it does?

[dany2010]

Hi,

 

Having a bit of a dumb moment.

 

I have setup dfsr to replicate a folder between our five sites. I then setup a domain namespace on our systen so that when we type \\domain\share it heads to the nearest server rather than going accross the vlan.

 

I am now trying to setup MDT which requires a standalone namespace but cant get my head around how these works.

 

If i set one up, can it have five directories that it picks the fastest server like a domain namespace does? Which server would you have to point to get the namespace?

 

Thanks

[Hedghog]

From my reading around this subject (MDT only) and some experimentation I believe that the best way to set MDT up is to co-locate it with WDS and DHCP. This way all the components to make it work are in one box so to speak. Do you have distributed DHCP/WDS? if you have I'm out of my depth. Hope this helps.

[Tom_M]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-10/deployment/deploy-windows-mdt/build-a-distributed-environment-for-windows-10-deployment

 

Take note of the Default Gateway option which would need to be setup correctly. This is the guide we used here when it was first setup. Slightly smaller at 4 sites; but works the same.

 

Tom.