August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
786 pages
20h 22m
English
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Non-authoritative DFS Replication
In most situations, only one or a few domain controllers (less than 50%) have replication issues at a given time. In such situations, we can issue a non-authoritative replication request so the system will replicate the SYSVOL from the Primary Domain Controller (PDC). In order to perform non-authoritative replication, follow these steps:
- First, we need to back up the existing SYSVOL. This can be done by copying the SYSVOL folder from the domain controller that has DFS Replication issues to a secure location.
- Log in to the domain controller as Domain Admin/Enterprise Admin.
- Launch the ADSIEDIT.MSC tool and connect to Default naming context:
- Browse to DC=domain,DC=local | OU=Domain Controllers | CN=(DC ...