Repadmin

Welcome to our website. Here you will be able to find tools for managing Windows Active Directory. There are many different software developers that have created tools for automating the time consuming tasks that system Administrators have to deal with on a day to day basis. For example managing user accounts in Active Directory, organizing the computer and user accounts into the right folder, cleaning up old accounts, monitoring the Domain Controllers to ensure they are running healthy, etc. Some of these Active Directory tasks require a deeper knowledge in Active Directory Management and related technologies.

Software that can automate these time consuming tasks, will help avoid manual, error prone administrative activities on Active Directory and saves time and cost

Repadmin

Repadmin is a command line tool to help troubleshoot Active Directory Replication issues. This is a simple and powerful tool that is in the Windows Server Support Tools package. You can use Repadmin to verify whether or not replication between domain controllers is occurring.

So for example, you modify a user account on Domain Controller1 and you want to verify these changes replicated to Domain Controller2 with no issues. Using Repadmin your can determine whether all domain controllers have the same replicated values.

If a specific domain controller does not have the same value, and the changes were made some time ago, you can begin troubleshooting why the Domain Controller has not received the change.

I nice feature of Repadmin is the ability to provide specific information related to replication errors.

To list any replication errors enter Repadmin /SHOWREPS and the FQDN of the domain controller you want to check. You will see a listing of each inbound connection and its status.

Administrators can use Repadmin to view the replication topology as seen by the Domain Controllers. Repadmin can also be used to manually force replication between Domain Controllers.

Repadmin can also be used to monitor the health of an Active Directory Forest.

The operations replsummary, showrepl, showrepl /csv, and showvector /latency can be used to check for replication problems.

Company: Microsoft
Download: Windows Support Tools
Syntax: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736571%28WS.10%29.aspx

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