Follow this procedure to enable or disable replication.
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To enable or disable replication for a specific connection |
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Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click DFS Management.
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In the console tree, under the Replication node, click the replication group that contains the connection you want to edit.
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In the details pane, click the Connections tab.
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Do one of the following:
- To disable a connection, right-click the
connection, and then click Disable.
- To enable a connection, right-click the
connection, and then click Enable.
- To disable a connection, right-click the
connection, and then click Disable.
Additional considerations
- Configuration changes are not applied
immediately to all members. The new configuration must be
replicated to all domain controllers, and each member in the
replication group must poll its closest domain controller to obtain
the changes. The amount of time this takes depends on AD DS
replication latency and the long polling interval (60 minutes) on
each member. To poll immediately for configuration changes, open a
command prompt window and then type the following command once for
each member of the replication group:
dfsrdiag.exe PollAD /Member:DOMAIN\Server1
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- Microsoft does not support one-way
connections for DFS Replication. Creating a one-way replication
connection can cause numerous issues including health check
topology errors, staging issues, and issues with the DFS
Replication database. To create a one-way connection, instead make
the replicated folder on the appropriate member read-only.