Forcing replication
After troubleshooting failing networking connections, resetting Active Directory's replication topology, and/or removing domain controllers, there may be a need to check proper replication.
As an admin, you can wait for intra-site replication to occur and for inter-site replication to trigger upon the replication schedules, but there's also a way to force replication.
The obvious choice to force replication is to use repadmin.exe
.
Getting ready
To work with repadmin.exe
, sign in to a domain controller.
How to do it...
Issue the following command on an elevated Command Prompt (cmd.exe
) on any domain controller:
repadmin.exe /syncall /Aped
Now, let's see how this works.
How it works…
This command will synchronize all partitions (/A
) using push notifications (/p
) in enterprise mode across Active Directory sites (/e
), using DN instead of DNS names (/d
).
See also
Please refer to the Working with repadmin.exe recipe...