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How to force Active Directory Replication between Domain controllers?

Ok this is probably a dumb question, but here goes....

Would I go to Active Directory Domain and Hosts? If I was wanting to replicate between domain controllers...

Also why would I want to replicate between domain controllers.

And lastly what would be my steps to do so?

Thanks

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MSE-dwells

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MSE-dwells

NOTE - command line tools exist to control replication in a more automated or detailed fashion but are more complex to use.

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cuziyq

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cuziyq

Sheesh. I gotta quit writing long posts. In the time it takes me to write it, someone else hits the question first :-)

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JohnDemerjian

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HannasIT

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Ok great, that was a ton of great responses.

All yall's post really paint me a clear picture! And is very helpfull!

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Mathiau

good info here.

i have used in a cmd window

repadmin /syncall

njmatt

I'm experiencing problems with my Active Directory replicating across both my Domain Controllers. When I force replication on either domain I get the following error:

"The following error occurred during the attempt to synchronize naming context DOMAIN from Domain Controller DC2 to Domain Controller DC2: The RPC server is unavailable.

This operation will not contiue.
This condition may be caused by a DNS lookup problem...."