1-runnning dcdiag 2-Checking the Event Viewer for Errors 3-running repadmin /showreps What else you would do ? to be sure? Those are good enough. Following discussion might be of your interest how to make automated Active Directory Health Checks for Domain Controllers? http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverpowershell/thread/92e960a6-ee38-4b6d-a24b-db2418b594ef/I do not represent the organisation I work for, all the opinions expressed here are my own. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights. - .... .- -. -.- ... --..-- ... .- -. - --- ... ....

Hello I was wondering what test you would do to see if the AD is healthy with no issues of any kind. I would say: 1-runnning dcdiag 2-Checking the Event Viewer for Errors 3-running repadmin /showreps What else you would do ? to be sure?

Best Practices Analyzer for Active Directory Domain Services and The Active Directory Replication Status Tool (ADREPLSTATUS) is also good check it more http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd391875(v=ws.10) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30005http://www.arabitpro.com

1-runnning dcdiag 2-Checking the Event Viewer for Errors 3-running repadmin /showreps What else you would do ? to be sure? Those are good enough. Following discussion might be of your interest how to make automated Active Directory Health Checks for Domain Controllers? http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverpowershell/thread/92e960a6-ee38-4b6d-a24b-db2418b594ef/I do not represent the organisation I work for, all the opinions expressed here are my own. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights. - .... .- -. -.- ... --..-- ... .- -. - --- ... ....

Best Practices Analyzer for Active Directory Domain Services and The Active Directory Replication Status Tool (ADREPLSTATUS) is also good check it more http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd391875(v=ws.10) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30005http://www.arabitpro.com

Hello, for some detailed overview and piped to file for better reading: ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt [from each DC/DNS Server] dcdiag /v /c /d /e /s:dcname >c:\dcdiag.txt netdiag /v >c:\netdiag.txt [from each DC, netdiag may work but isn't supported with Windows server 2008 and don't run on Windows server 2008 R2] repadmin /showrepl dc* /verbose /all /intersite >c:\repl.txt ["dc* is a place holder for the starting name of the DCs if they all begin the same (if more then one DC exists)] dnslint /ad /s "DCipaddress" (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321045) ADREPLSTATUS http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30005 greatn GUI tool for controlling also replication. Best regards Meinolf Weber MVP, MCP, MCTS Microsoft MVP - Directory Services My Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/mweber/ Disclaimer: This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights.

Hello, for some detailed overview and piped to file for better reading: ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt [from each DC/DNS Server] dcdiag /v /c /d /e /s:dcname >c:\dcdiag.txt netdiag /v >c:\netdiag.txt [from each DC, netdiag may work but isn't supported with Windows server 2008 and don't run on Windows server 2008 R2] repadmin /showrepl dc* /verbose /all /intersite >c:\repl.txt ["dc* is a place holder for the starting name of the DCs if they all begin the same (if more then one DC exists)] dnslint /ad /s "DCipaddress" (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321045) ADREPLSTATUS http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30005 greatn GUI tool for controlling also replication. Best regards Meinolf Weber MVP, MCP, MCTS Microsoft MVP - Directory Services My Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/mweber/ Disclaimer: This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights.

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