Mastering Active Directory

DFS replication status

As part of the troubleshooting process, we need to verify the DFS replication status. The status of the DFS replication can be determined based on the status code.

Status codes for DFS are as follows:

• 0: Uninitialized
• 1: Initialized
• 2: Initial synchronization
• 3: Auto recovery

• 4: Normal
• 5: In error state
• 6: Disabled
• 7: Unknown

In order to review the status, we can use the following command:

For /f %r IN ('dsquery server -o rdn') do @echo %i && @wmic /node:"%r" /namespace:\\root\microsoftdfs path dfsrreplicatedfolderinfo WHERE replicatedfoldername='SYSVOL share' get replicatedfoldername,state