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Unsupported Windows features

Before you use CIFS in your network, you need to be aware of certain Windows features that ONTAP does not support.

ONTAP does not support the following Windows features:

  • Encrypted File System (EFS)

  • Logging of NT File System (NTFS) events in the change journal

  • Microsoft File Replication Service (FRS)

  • Microsoft Windows Indexing Service

  • Remote storage through Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)

  • Quota management from Windows clients

  • Windows quota semantics

  • The LMHOSTS file

  • NTFS native compression