Active Directory Infrastructure is depending on healthy replication. Every domain controller in the network should aware of every change which has made. When domain controller triggers a sync, it passes the data through the physical network to the destination.
In active directory environment, there are mainly two types of replications.
1) Intra-Site Replication
2) Inter-Site…
In an organization, there can be many group policies in used. Sometime multiple policies may target same thing. In that case it is important to understand which policy going to win. Group Polices precedence order LSDOU and Group Policy Inheritance decides which policy will win in Active Directory structure. Let’s look in to this further with an example,
As per above figure we…
There are certain windows cmdlets and utilities which we can use for replication issues troubleshooting purpose. Among those, Repadmin.exe is most commonly used Microsoft utility. This is available in servers which have AD DS or AD LDS role installed. It is also part of Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). This utility recommended to run as Domain Administrator or Enterprise Administrator.
In AD environment, FSMO role seize process only should use in a disaster where you cannot recover the FSMO role holder. It should be using for day to day operations. Some of the FSMO roles (RID, Domain Naming Master, Schema Master) can still afford few hours’ downtime with minimum business impacts. There for do not use the Seize option as the first option if still FSMO role holder can…
