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DFS Replication not reliable - how to watch current activity?

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D@discussions.microsoft.com Jeff D

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Nov 13, 2009, 2:48:01 PM11/13/09
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We've setup DFS on our active directory domain within 2 windows 2003 servers
on a new web farm. After the initial sync over the weekend everything looked
good. Two days of using the new web farm the two servers started having sync
issues where a file would get copied to the active dfs server, but not
replicated to the other. We've rolled back to our original web farm and kept
the new farm with dfs running to test.

However, we've been unable to replicate this problem consistently and we're
looking for tools that will give us a good idea of what's going on. We
already have MOM installed with the DFS mgmt pack...but that seems to give
more of a overall picture and not a instant idea of what it's doing.

For example, at any given point in time, I'd like to know:
a) There are 1248 files on server X that need to be replicated to server Y
b) There are 13 files on server Y that need to be replicated to server X

After 2 minutes it would update to say:
a) There are 0 files on server X that need to be replicated to server Y
b) There are 0 files on server Y that need to be replicated to server X

The backlog doesn't tell me that, neither does the Staging Area graphs.

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