Obtaining an Active Directory replication status
In Active Directory, replication is crucial. Any replication failures can cause inconsistency and might provide different results to different set of users. Because of this reason, organizations have tight controls around monitoring Active Directory replication failures and consistency. Windows administrators rely on the most famous utility, repadmin.exe
, to query the replication data. It provides very detailed information about the replication status between domain controllers and metadata details of DCs, objects, and so on. However, developing automations around the repadmin.exe
utility is not so easy because the output is in text format and you need to parse it to get the required portion of data. Given these reasons, Microsoft has introduced a few cmdlets in the Active Directory module starting from Windows Server 2012 to deal with Active Directory replication. This list is not exhaustive enough to perform all sorts of replication activities...