The DFS utility, mxdfsscan.exe, maps root level DFS paths to actual storage server or share paths. It is used to export the DFS components (roots, root targets, links, and link targets) for all Windows DFS namespaces. The utility finds out physical level storage/filer link for all Domain DFS paths. It takes DFS root UNC path as input, for example\\<DFS domain>\root. This utility only enumerates online links and skips all offline links. It generates the output in .csv format.

The mxdfsscan.exe is a command line utility.

mxdfsscan lets you specify only a single namespace at a time. You can run the utility twice to get information from two different DFS namespaces and create two different files from the output, for example, test1.csv and test2.csv. You can then import settings from test1.csv and test2.csv from the Data Insight Management Console

When you import a new DFS mapping file to Data Insight, the old mappings are maintained in Data Insight. For example, if you import mappings from test1.csv and then from test2.csv, the mappings from both files are displayed in Data Insight. However, if there are some duplicate mappings (the same DFS link appears twice - whether mapped to the same physical path or a different path), these mappings are not imported. A message is displayed indicating that there are duplicate mappings and hence one or more mappings cannot be imported.