Healthy Replication is a must for active directory environment. SYSVOL folder in domain controllers contain policies and log on scripts. It is replicated between domain controllers to maintain up to date config (consistency). Before windows server 2008, it used FRS (File Replication Service) to replicate sysvol content among domain controllers. With Windows server 2008 FRS was deprecated and…
Healthy SYSVOL replication is key for every active directory infrastructure. when there is SYSVOL replication issues you may notice,
1. Users and systems are not applying their group policy settings properly.
2. New group policies not applying to certain users and systems.
3. Group policy object counts is different between domain controllers (inside SYSVOL folders)
4. Log on scripts…
SYSVOL is a folder shared by domain controller to hold its logon scripts, group policies and other items related to AD. All the domain controllers in network will replicate the content of SYSVOL folder. The default path for SYSVOL folder is %SystemRoot%\SYSVOL. This folder path can define when you install the active directory.
Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 uses File Replication Service (FRS) to…
When I talk to administrators, network engineers about the active directory issues, errors most of the time they know how to install an active directory and how to work with in active directory environment but when I ask about terms like AD database, SYSVOL, System state most of the time I get wrong answer or incomplete answer. Most of the time engineers will not care about these until they go in…
