Forcing DC replication with PowerShell 2

[VulakAerr]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way of forcing replication between two domain controllers using PowerShell? I've bound to the appropriate NTDS connection using ADSI and had a look for any likely-looking methods on that object (I had hoped it would be in a similar place to where I would force replication in dssite.msc) but I don't see anything useful thus far.

So... anyone got any ideas? Thanks.

 

[markdmac]

$shell=new-object -COM "wscript.shell"
$shell.run("cmd.exe /c repadmin /syncall")

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Regards,

Mark

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[VulakAerr]

Hi,

Thank you for this. Unfortunately it's not quite what I had in mind. I was hoping to be able to bind to an ADSI object and perform some sort of action on that, rather than calling an external shell.

Thanks all the same.

John.

 

[crobin1]

I'm not sure there is a direct way today. The AD team is working on a ton of cmdlets, I think to be released either with PowerShell v2 or as an add-on. I would hope this sort of functionality would be included. Quest Software's free AD cmdlets don't include this either, so using repadmin is probably your best bet right now. Unless there's something in the bowels of .Net...

 

[VulakAerr]

Interesting. At least I know now that I wasn't missing anything obvious. Thanks to you both for a working solution and an explanation respectively.

Roll on v2.

 

[Zelandakh]

You used to use "net accounts /sync" but I never looked into whether that did specific server to server replication, just forest wide.

 

[crobin1]

This still isn't quite what you want, but in .Net there is a DirectorySynchronization class in System.DirectoryServices. It looks like that can be used to perform a full sync, although I don't see anything about doing it between specific domain controllers.
Link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...services.directorysynchronization(VS.80).aspx