Monday, March 6, 2017

Powershell --> Powerquick : force active directory replication from a specific domain controller to the remaining others

Hi Mates,
quick and useful : how many times you needed to replicate an Active Directory change to the entire domain ?.....quickly, without waiting the system times.
The GUI is pretty clear but open the administration tool, expand, right click......and so on.....too long sometime....clearly too long
It happens me every day : someone call me from another site/plant and ask me to make some changes. YES I know that we have some replication priority inside AD, it depends on the value that you are going to change.

Here you can find some interesting (long) Microsoft articles that explains better and in depth the replication topic :

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755994(v=ws.10).aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772726(v=ws.10).aspx (here you can find something related to urgent replication)
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961783.aspx

My little script allows you to choose the domain controller that is the "master" : from which you need to propagate the change/s.
Then the replication starts and shows you the "log" of the task.
Anyway less words and more facts...here you are :




Really skinny.
No complications, no tricks, only the essential.
Hope this helps.
See you soon 

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