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...