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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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AD replication

Healthy replication is a must for an AD environment. AD uses a multi-master database, so every domain controller in the environment should be aware of every change in an AD database. As well as this, domain controllers should also know about changes in group policies, startup scripts, preference settings, and more. When it comes to replication, it is not only the replication service that is responsible for it. There should be stable network connectivity between domain controllers. This communication media can be copper cables, fiber cables, or even a Software-Defined Network (SDN). In this section, we are going to look at how we can use the AD-integrated features to maintain healthy replication.

FRS versus DFSR

Windows Server 2000 and 2003 use FRS to replicate the SYSVOL folder content between domain controllers. With Windows Server 2008, FRS was deprecated and Microsoft introduced DFSR for SYSVOL folder replication:

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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