The "Dfsutil /import" command takes a long time to finish when you run this command to import DFS links to a stand-alone DFS root under a heavy load on a Windows Server 2003-based computer

You are running the Distributed File System (DFS) service on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer. When you run the Dfsutil /import command on the computer to import DFS links from a metadata file to a stand-alone DFS root (namespace), the command takes a very long time to finish. Additionally, you will notice a high amount of registry reads on the stand-alone DFS servers and increased CPU usage. For example, this problem occurs when you run the following command to import DFS links.Note dfsRootName is an existing DFS root to which you want to import DFS links. FileName is the name of the metadata file.

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