Re: Forcing Intersite Group Policy Replication AD 2003

Thanks Jorge,

Now suppose I wanted to force a replication from DC3 to overwrite info on
DC2? I guess I get confused as to what determines which DC is
'upstream'...is it because a DC is in the default first site? So if you
create a CO, what determines which DC is upstream or which DC will take
precedence on replication conflicts/overwriting info on the other..by
USN/timestamp?

Hope I am explaining properly...


"Jorge de Almeida Pinto [MVP - DS]"
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for NTFRSUTL to work make sure you use the correct upstream replication
partner for FRS....

OK, let me explain what I mean...

HUB site
DC1
DC2

BRANCH site
DC3

when going into sites and services (while targeting DC3) and looking for
COs beneath the NTDS Settings object, lets say you see a CO that use DC2
as the inbound replication partner for DC3.

for NTFRSUTL to work make sure you also use DC2 as the source DC and not
DC1

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"Liam C" <Liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi All,

Took me a while, but I've been able to figure out how to force a group
policy replication to remote branch office DC's using the ntfrsutl
utility.

The problem is that this works if I do it from one of our 2 servers at
headquarters (default first site), but there are times when I need to
make changes at a remote DC and I want changes to replicate back to
headquarters here. This seems to take quite a while--around the default
of 60 minutes which I have set through 'sites and services.' The ntfrs
utility has no effect going the other way...

Can anyone think of a reason why? DNS is fine, DCDIAG, etc..all looks
good. The whole USN thing and which version overrides the other is still
a mystery to me...Is there a hierarchical order of which DC would take
precedence for gpo version or is it simply by timestamp?

Thanks in Advance





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