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Published inNov 2021
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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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Replicating a specific object

Once an object is added to a domain controller, it needs to be replicated to all other domain controllers. Otherwise, users will face issues during login using AD-integrated applications and services. The replication is dependent on many different factors, such as the replication schedule and intra-site connectivity. Sometimes, we need to force the replication between domain controllers:

## Replicate Object to From Domain Controller to Another ## 
$myobject = Read-Host 'What is your AD Object Includes ?' 
$sourcedc = Read-Host 'What is the Source DC ?' 
$destinationdc = Read-Host 'What is the Destination DC ?' 
$passobject = (Get-ADObject -Filter {Name -Like $myobject}) 
Sync-ADObject -object $passobject -source $sourcedc -destination $destinationdc 
Write-Host "Given Object Replicated to" $destinationdc

The preceding script will ask a few questions:

  • Name of object: This need not be a distinguished...
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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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