So now I'm in PMC and I've got the domain highlighted.
And the first thing you notice above here is the status tab on the right here.
And if I click on status details, this little arrow under the PDC emulator DC, which is my baseline
for the replication monitoring, it'll show you the site that it's in its IP address.
In this case, an IPV six address.
And then it will tell me the data for the domain is uncollected.
So what I'm going to do is come down here to detect now and click this button and it's going to go ahead
and generate a report and tell me that I have 25 GPOs.
I have zero domain controllers with replication in progress, and if I had other domain controllers
in this domain, it would show me a value here for the number of domain controllers in sync.
So what this is doing at the domain level is it's testing all GPOs against all disease, which is obviously
not something you're going to want to do on a frequent basis if you're in a decent sized environment
because again, it will take a long time to run and depending on connectivity, may not actually complete.
So what I always suggest is if you're trying to figure out if a particular deal that you just made a
change to has been replicated everywhere, just come down to the GPO itself, click on the GPO object,
come up here and click on status.
And then hit detect now here.
And what it'll do is essentially look for just this one GPO and its replication status across the domain.
So if you suspect that a GPO has not replicated or is not replicating to all D C's.
This is a great tool to use to come in and quickly check that.
And like Pat told before it.
It's going to be limited in terms of its ability to get out to your entire network.
If your network is very large across one links, you've got DC spread all over the world.
It's not going to be a quick process and I definitely recommend doing it on a GPO by GPO basis rather
than doing it up here at the domain level.
But it is a good tool for getting that basic replication status, finding out where group policies,
specific group policies are in their replication across your disease.
And again, if a client has not yet received policy or is waiting to get a policy update, this will
tell you if it's because the changes that you originated at the PDC emulator haven't made it to that
DC yet, or if it's some other problem.