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So now I'm in PMC and I've got the domain highlighted.

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And the first thing you notice above here is the status tab on the right here.

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And if I click on status details, this little arrow under the PDC emulator DC, which is my baseline

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for the replication monitoring, it'll show you the site that it's in its IP address.

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In this case, an IPV six address.

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And then it will tell me the data for the domain is uncollected.

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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

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and generate a report and tell me that I have 25 GPOs.

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I have zero domain controllers with replication in progress, and if I had other domain controllers

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in this domain, it would show me a value here for the number of domain controllers in sync.

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So what this is doing at the domain level is it's testing all GPOs against all disease, which is obviously

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not something you're going to want to do on a frequent basis if you're in a decent sized environment

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because again, it will take a long time to run and depending on connectivity, may not actually complete.

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So what I always suggest is if you're trying to figure out if a particular deal that you just made a

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change to has been replicated everywhere, just come down to the GPO itself, click on the GPO object,

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come up here and click on status.

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And then hit detect now here.

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And what it'll do is essentially look for just this one GPO and its replication status across the domain.

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So if you suspect that a GPO has not replicated or is not replicating to all D C's.

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This is a great tool to use to come in and quickly check that.

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And like Pat told before it.

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It's going to be limited in terms of its ability to get out to your entire network.

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If your network is very large across one links, you've got DC spread all over the world.

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It's not going to be a quick process and I definitely recommend doing it on a GPO by GPO basis rather

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than doing it up here at the domain level.

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But it is a good tool for getting that basic replication status, finding out where group policies,

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specific group policies are in their replication across your disease.

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And again, if a client has not yet received policy or is waiting to get a policy update, this will

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tell you if it's because the changes that you originated at the PDC emulator haven't made it to that

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DC yet, or if it's some other problem.