REPLMON - Active Directory Graphical Replication Monitor

Replmon is a graphical AD replication monitoring utility for Windows 2000 and 2003, which also works for 2008 and R2. Though REPADMIN is the main utility for working with replication, I think REPLMON is an excellent tool to learn how replication works, but a short walkthrough of how to use it helps quite a bit in getting started.

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Science & Technology

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• Active Directory
• replication
• REPLMON

[babouras84]

Could you please tell me how Operations Masters are related to Replication of AD partitions? The partitions are Schema, Domain, and Configuration.Does this mean that generally the replication is Multi-Master regarding the replication of partitions but when it comes to certain replications changes that correspond to a Master Role the replication in a site begins from the master operations???I am confused because there are three partitions and 5 Masters. I would be grateful if you could answer!

[ShorinSean]

@babouras84 Operations masters, or FSMOs, are roles a DC can hold that update certain AD attributes that really need to have a single master reference rather than multiple masters (for example passwords and the PDC FSMO). Broadly speaking, they don't haven't anything to do with replication. They control the updates of certain attributes, which the replication mechanism forwards their updates around the forest.

[ShorinSean]

@babouras84 I've just written a feature article on troubleshooting Active Directory Replication for the April issue of Windows IT Pro magazine. It goes into replication in a good degree of detail and has a number of useful links to other AD-related resources.

[babouras84]

Thank you very much for the explanation! Replication can sometimes be a difficult topic to understand, especially the ring architecture that KCC builds in intrasite and the numerous partition replication topologies on intersite using links and bridges. I will check your article!