I came across an issue where DFS replication between two server 2016 was not working. It’s a full MAC environment, with a windows server as a file server. What was happening that Mac was creating a lot of .smbdelete files because of which the DFS replication was not happening. You can find more information here.
The easiest way is to run the DFS replication after deleting the .smbdelete files. It can be done running the following Powershell script. It will also generate a log of files deleted.
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