I have been asked this question something like four or five times by different people in the last three days who say they can’t seem to google the answer so here it is…
ntfrsutl.exe forcerepl DestinationDC /r "Domain System Volume (SYSVOL share)" /p SourceDC.domain.com
So if I have a PDC of JoePDC.joe.com and I have a DC named DC1.joe.com and I want to force replication of sysvol from the PDC to the DC, the command would be
ntfrsutl.exe forcerepl DC1 /r "Domain System Volume (SYSVOL share)" /p JoePDC.joe.com
or
ntfrsutl.exe forcerepl DC1.joe.com /r "Domain System Volume (SYSVOL share)" /p JoePDC.joe.com
That is all…
joe
I assume this is only if you haven’t moved your SYSVOL to DFSR replication under 2008?
Yes… Lots of folks out there, unfortunately, still on Windows Server 2003 or just haven’t upgraded to DFSR.