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Change DFS Replication scheduled time?

Is it possible to change the scheduled time for DFS replication between replication partners on Windows Server 2008? We have a backup that runs hourly and interferes with the replication. I then get ...
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Replication of lockoutTime attribute is not urgent on AD-LDS

I have two LDS servers on the same subnet. They replicate well. If I change an attribute, it gets replicated after 15 seconds. LDS is configured to honor password policies. When a user makes too ...
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Why are only certain settings syncing in IIS Shared Configuration?

I have 2 Windows 2008 R2 machines running IIS using a shared configuration file on a network share. This works fine for the most part. However, it seems that certain settings do not sync to the other ...
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Using TrueCrypt with File Replication on Windows Server

We have a few folders that are set to replicate to a DR file server off-site. One of these folders contains a file that is a TrueCrypt volume container. When this file is mounted in TrueCrypt, the ...
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How can I check that DFS is replicating correctly? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: compare the contents of two folders that are replicating by dfs We use DFS to replicate files to a Disaster Recovery server. We have a task where we check the DR ...
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Weird Active Directory behavior after ADMT migration

We have multiple sites with multiple DC's. Since performing the migrations we have been experiencing all sorts of problems with DFSR etc. We have multiple objects in the AD .. DCNAME ...
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Copy two remote folder into one local folder

I try to merge two folder (from remote Server) into one local directory. It is a deployment issue, on one Server there are two folders \server1\folder1 and \server1\folder2, now i try to merge both ...
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dnslint and redadmin, why and when?

A pretty small query really - dnslint and repadmin - what really differentiates these tools in terms of troubleshooting replication? When and why would you use either one.
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DFS-R alternatives?

I was wondering what alternatives to DFS-R are out there on windows machines for real-time bidirectional file & folder replication? DFS-R requires active directory and a domain controller which I ...
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DFS Replication, Losing folders

We lost a lot of folders in one part of our AD. I tracked down that we get a lot of errormessages about this in this form: How do we solve this? Why does this happen? (Some information edited) ...
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Server 2008 DC rejecting replication requests

Have a DC that has recently been part of a business continuity test. From what I understand the server (which is virtual) was snapshotted, test carried out while the link between the two sites was ...
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DFS Replication across WAN

I have setup both sites in ADSS, set the subnets properly (I think), and setup a DFS share with replication. How can I test that to see which physical machine I'm actually accessing when visiting ...
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What options for Windows Server 2008/SQL Server 2008 replication/mirroring across data centres?

Our Microsoft web-application processes around 2000 orders per day. I need to support failover to a secondary data centre. What are the options and experience of implementing a replication/mirroring ...
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Migration from Distributed File System 2003 to 2008

I have two Windows Server 2003 and both have DFS and it does replication between them. I would like to migrate the primary win2k3 DFS server to win2k8. what is the best way to do that? I found this ...
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AD Replication Monitor

Is there something like Replication Monitor (in Windows 2000) available in Windows 2008 R2? What tool do you use to check replication health?
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File replication in a workgroup environment

I have two web servers where I need to sync some folders. I'd like to use Windows Distributed File System Replication (DFSR), but the servers are in a workgroup environment, which is not supported by ...
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Server has IP address with conflicting site associations

I have run dfsdiag /testdcs and I am getting the error: Server has IP address with conflicting site associations Now I think this is probably due to the fact that the server in question is linked ...
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How Does DFS Replication in Windows 2008 Handle Write/Delete in Rapid Succession

We'd like to replicate a mail drop folder between two servers; however, as files are written to the source folder, a timer job on that server is also regularly processing and deleting them, meaning ...
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Replicate content across IIS farm, *not* on a domain

What's the best way of replicating web content across an IIS web farm where the servers are not on a domain? Most people seem to recommend DFS for this type of scenario, but I understand that relies ...
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Realtime File Replication with Windows Server

I am researching alternative solutions for real-time-file-replication on windows Server OS. Now we use XO Soft WAN Sync for file-replication but in the next time we want to expand our Server-location ...
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Options for continuous one-way replication of tens of millions of files on Windows Server?

We have a very large Windows file store (several terabytes and tens of millions of files) that I want to keep in continuous replication over to another server, in as near to real-time as possible. I'm ...
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Windows Domain replication monitoring tool

I am looking for web-based interface GUI, or some kind of monitoring tool that will show replication status for a domain. I know I can use repadmin with various options on the command line to query ...
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How long does initial replication take in DFS?

I have two windows servers, one 2008 SP2 R1 ( x86 ), and the other 2008 R2 running a 2008 DFS namespace, and replicating between the two. I have approximately 600GB of data being replicated over a ...
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Block-level LUN replication options for Windows [closed]

When it comes to replicating a LUN or partition to a physically separate server, Linux has DRBD (now in the kernel!). As I understand it, it has both synchronous and asynchronous replication modes. ...
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Windows Server 2008 - AD Replication

I have 3 Windows Server 2008 servers. Here's the breakdown... 1.) Windows 2008 Standard - Configured as primary AD, DNS and File server 2.) Windows 2008 Enterprise - Secondary DNS / Lansweeper 3.) ...
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MSSQL Two Database Servers 1 Database

We have two servers. They are both HP DL 380 G6 servers with the same hardware and specs running Windows Server 2008. Currently the second server is a warm standby for the first with an automatic fail ...
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How do I make a Windows virtual machine replicate to another datacenter/cloud?

We have a Windows 2008 VM running IIS and SQL Server Express (it's an all-in-one web application). We need to have another copy at our secondary datacenter site. What is the best way to do this? It ...
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How do I configure DFS replication using the command line?

I'm in the process of making a script to automate DFS creation and replication for an exam I have next week. So, assuming I have a namespace: dfsutil root adddom \\Foo\bar 'My namespace' And I ...
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Is real-time or synchronous replication possible over WAN link?

The company I work for is looking to implement truly real-time file replication with file locking over a WAN link that spans over 2000 miles. We currently have a 16-drive SAN setup in our east coast ...
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Windows Server 2008 (Web Server) Replication

We have a load balanced environment with x64 Windows Server 2008. What are some best practices to setting up replication across the web servers? Do I only want to replicate the web folders? How ...
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How to replicate windows server 2008?

We have 2 servers let's call them server A and server B. Server B is never used unless something goes wrong with server A. I need a system that can replicate server A to server B but this doesn't have ...
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SYSVOL replication over DFS-R

When we migrate our production DCs to Server 2008 I would also like to move away from FSR to DFS-R for SYSVOL replication. My problem is that I setup a quick lab to test it out but it's not going as ...
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Replicate Server 2003 DFS root to Server 2008

I am trying to get a Windows Server 2003 (not R2) DFS root to replicate to Server 2008 Standard. My research so far suggests that adding the File Replication Service role service in the File Services ...