---
id: 5920
title: "SYSVOL: Preventing a Horror Story"
source_domain: semperis.com
source_url: "https://www.semperis.com/blog/preventing-a-sysvol-horror-story/"
published_at: "2022-10-20T20:27:09Z"
tags: ["active-directory", "misconfigurations", "sysvol", "frs", "dfsr"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/5920"
lang: en
---

# SYSVOL: Preventing a Horror Story

## Summary

For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the post urges retiring the outdated File Replication Service (FRS) for SYSVOL replication and migrating to DFSR to eliminate legacy, exploitable configurations.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** semperis.com
- **Published:** 2022-10-20T20:27:09Z
- **Original:** https://www.semperis.com/blog/preventing-a-sysvol-horror-story/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/5920