How can I tell which DC handled a change/modification to an object/attribute?

That question came up a couple of weeks  ago in the Microsoft Forums. The user simply wanted to track down the DC that originally made a change (”originating change”) to an attribute - and replicated it out to all other DCs (”replicated change”).
The great places the TechNet Forums and Newsgroups are, there are smart folks answering […]

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Inspecting AD replication facilities with LDAP searches

I’ve come to think about what the most challenging things for AD admins out there are. There are highly sophisticated problems like RODC mass deployment, Schema enhancements with own attributes and object classes and AD/Exchange migrations – no question, those are tough topics. I was thinking about more day-to-day challenges you might encounter and tried […]

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How does a RODC know what writable DC to replicate from?

Here’s a short one: I’ve come across this question in one of the Newsgroups and really didn’t know the answer exactly. I knew it had to be some sort of LDAP query magic, since by some means, both RWDC and RODC need to compile a list of possible rep partners every time KCC runs and […]

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