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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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Replication

Data replication is crucial for a healthy Active Directory environment. For a given domain controller, we can find its inbound replication partners using this:

Get-ADReplicationPartnerMetadata -Target REBEL-SRV01.rebeladmin.com

The preceding command provides a detailed description of the replication health of the given domain controller, including the last successful replication, replication partition, server, and so on.

We can list all the inbound replication partners for the given domain using the following command:

Get-ADReplicationPartnerMetadata -Target "rebeladmin.com" -Scope Domain

In the preceding command, the scope is defined as the domain. This can be changed to the forest to get a list of the inbound partners in the forest. The output is based on the default partition. If needed, the partition can be changed using –Partition to a configuration or schema partition. It will list the relevant inbound partners for the selected...

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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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