DFS-R - Office Documents locked problem

Dear Forum Members,
Recently I faced a really "threatening" problem, which you may seen before so know the solution for it. We had an old File Server, used Disk2VHD to move it's complete D: drive to another Windows Server 2012 R2. After this, we enabled DFS replication
for the whole drive to another Active Directory site WS2012R2 file server (just for backup). It is important that we use DFS-N for users to discover this share but they have folder targets JUST for the first one server, the second one is just for backup purposes.
The problem is that DFS-R comes with default exclusions (~*, *.bak, *.tmp), but in order to keep full sync, we removed them. Now users complain that several times they can not save Office documents (typically excel) because the files are locked! Even for
NEW files, when they try to save an .xls/.xlsx from Outlook, the file is imeediately locked!
After this we put back the exclusions immediately, because we taught that the problem comes from the Office temporary files. The event log contained a lot of warnings that tmp files could not be synced because of locked. Now I can not see other tmp files
warnings anymore, but there are still warnings in the DFS log, for example:
Event ID 4302 - The DFS Replication service has been repeatedly prevented from replicating a file due to consistent sharing violations encountered on the file. The service failed to stage a file for replication due to a sharing violation.
And this is for an .xlsm file.
What else could be the problem? Has anyone ran in this situation already?
Thank you a lot for any help,
Best Regards,
Christian

Hi,
Sorry for the delay reply.
DFS Replication uses staging folders for each replicated folder to act as caches for new and changed files that are ready to be replicated from sending members to receiving members. These files are stored under the local path of the replicated folder in
the DfsrPrivate\Staging folder. So if no new files and changed files, the folder is empty.
For more detailed information, you could refer to the similar thread about
DFS Staging Folder
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/windowsserver/en-US/239ecfc9-5cac-436f-b2a7-291d7535b26c/dfs-staging-folder
Regards.
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