September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
15h 49m
English
You want to find the replica servers for an application partition.
Open ADSI Edit.
Connect to the configuration naming context of the forest the application partition is in, if it is not already present in the left pane.
Expand the configuration naming context and click on the
Partitions container.
In the right pane, right-click on the crossRef
object that represents the application partition and select
Properties.
Under Attributes, select the
msDS-NC-Replica-Locations attribute.
> ntdsutil "dom man" conn "co to se <DomainControllerName>" q "list nc replicas[RETURN] <AppPartitionDN>" q q
' This code displays the DN of each domain controller's
' nTDSDSA object that is a replica server for the
' specified app partition
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
' Fully qualified DNS name of app partition
strAppPart = "<AppPartitionFQDN>" ' e.g. apps.rallencorp.com ' ------ END CONFIGURATION --------- set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE") strBase = "<LDAP://cn=Partitions," & _ objRootDSE.Get("ConfigurationNamingContext") & ">;" strFilter = "(&(objectcategory=crossRef)(dnsRoot=" & strAppPart & "));" strAttrs = "msDS-NC-Replica-Locations;" strScope = "onelevel" set objConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") objConn.Provider = "ADsDSOObject" objConn.Open "Active Directory Provider" set objRS = objConn.Execute(strBase & strFilter & strAttrs ...