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Is it possible to disable the use of encrypted RPC by DFSR?

April 26, 2017dfsr disable encrypted possible RPC

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Is it possible to disable the use of encrypted RPC by DFSR?

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The DFS Replication service uses Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) over TCP to replicate data. Since the service has been designed to use the Remote Differential Compression (RDC) algorithm and since it uses XPRESS compression to compress data prior to transmission, it transfers only a compressed diff over the wire. This means that only the changed blocks between files are compressed and transferred over the network, instead of the entire file being transferred. In the interest of securing data transfers over the wire, the DFS Replication service has been designed to always use the authentication-level constant, RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_PKT_PRIVACY, thus ensuring that RPC communication over the wire is always encrypted. Therefore, it is not possible to disable the use of encrypted RPC by the DFS Replication service.