How to check replication status of all Domain Controllers and replication status of users across Active Directory Forest

 

 

 

Suppose you are working in that company who have various locations and have multiple domain controllers, recently that company opened new branch in new region and you have created new Domain controller for that region and now you want to check that new domain controller able to see or replicate properly among all domain controllers and users or objects created under new domain controller able to sync properly in the Active Directory Forest.

Use below command to get all the domain controllers details in a text file (DCDetails.txt).

•       DSQuery Server –O RDN > DCDetails.txt

Use below command to check the status of the newly created users among all domain controllers. This command gives output in text file named Detail.txt

•         For /F “Tokens=*” %L IN (DCDetails.TXT) DO DSQuery user –DomainRoot –Name Username> Detail.txt 

How to check the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) provider/writer status

 

Problem

How to check the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) provider/writer status.

Solution

To check the VSS provider/writer status.

1. Open a command window. Click Start > Run and type CMD, and then click OK.
2. At the command prompt, type vssadmin list providers, and then press ENTER.
3. Confirm that Microsoft VSS provider is listed as:
 
Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0

 
4. Type vssadmin list writers at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.
5. Confirm that all the VSS writers are showing:
State: [1] Stable
No error


NOTE: If any errors are found with a specific writer, contact the writer's corresponding application manufacturer technical support for further assistance.