AD Replication Guidelines

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Johnny Noitargim

Hi everyone,

I just inherited a LAN that spans over 3 remote hub sites, interconnected
with good links (min 10Mb). Each site has 2 x DCs. At the moment the
replication looks a bit of a mess between the DCs with some connected with
the automatically generated links and some with manual links.

What is the best way to go forward with this as it is clearly not working at
the moment. If I was to connect manually the 2 DCs on each site to the rest
would that be an overkill?

I would also like to know if there is a tool which would give me a good idea
of where replication is going wrong. I can see changes taking half a day to
take place but both DCDiag and Repladmin show no errors.

Many thanks in advance for any pointers!

Johnny
 
Johnny-

Replmon from the support tools would be another good tool to check out.

What I would do here is:

Ensure your site topology is well defined:
Site Links
Sites
Subnets
Bridging

Map out on paper your replication topology, and then go in and manually
create the links between the DCs.

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