Site Replication

I have a SharePoint 2010 production farm with a web application ‘A’ that I would like to replicate twice in a development farm. The restore and PowerShell Mount went fine for the first development site then I used the following PowerShell to mount the DB
for the second development site, which went fine and PowerShell returned the new GUID for the DB but when I browsed to the site I get an error
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 21:00:33 GMT Connection: close. Any help will be appreciated
PS C:\Users\SP2010xxxxxx> Mount-SPContentDatabase "WSS-Content-Portal-xxxx" -AssignNewDatabaseID -DatabaseServer "XXX2010DB1DEV" -WebApplication http://vsp2010XXX:1234

Again, doesn't matter. The Site Collections contained within those databases have the same GUID, and Site Collections are recorded in the Configuration database, farm-wide.
You need to use Backup-SPSite and Restore-SPSite in order to duplicate Site Collections within the same farm on different Web Applications.
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Site to Site Replication only works for a few hours in the morning (each morning)

We have been fighting an odd active directory replication issue for over a month now and I am hoping that someone can provide some insight. We have 5 AD servers in the following orientation...
Site HQ
- PRIME running Windows 2008 R2
- AD2 running Windows 2008 R2
Site COLO
- AD3 running Windows 2008 (not R2)
- AD3NEW running Windows 2008 R2
Site BRANCH
- AD4 running Windows 2008 R2
The domain is at the Windows 2008 Functional Level.
There are always on site to site VPNs between all 3 sites and IP Intersite Transports Site Links defined for all 3 possible connections with Cost of 100 and interval of 15. Each IP site link is configured with a schedule of available all day long.
Every day the following sequence of events happens...
* Somewhere between 6:30 and 7:30am all the servers start to sync with each other perfectly. We can make AD changes and they replicate across all servers without issues. During this time all the repadmin commands work well across all servers.
* Typically somewhere in the 10:30 to 11:30am time frame we start to get errors replicating data - specifically between the HQ and COLO sites. This manifests itself as Event 1232 Call Timeout from the DC RPC Client and and Event 1925 from the KCC. Additionally
repadmin commands fail when attempting to connect to the BRANCH servers.
* For the rest of the day the intra-site replication between PRIME and AD2 work fine - and periodically the BRANCH AD server is updated as well. But the COLO sites remain unreplicated and continue to get errors for the remainder of the day. While this down
- the ability to ping and remote desktop between the servers is perfectly fine - so even if there were a network hiccup that happens - the network is stable for hours without the sites recovering.
* Magically the next morning around 6:30 and 7:30am all the servers are able to replicate without issue and we get 3-5 hours of immediate replication and then it happens again.
As I stated above - there is always on site-to-site VPN connections between all 3 sites that are actively monitored by PRTG. These connections remain open all day long. The Site topology has the COLO servers attempting to replicate with the HQ servers -
and both sites have 100MB data connections that remain active during the entire time. Additionally PRTG bandwidth monitoring shows that these links have no spikes in traffic anywhere near the max capacity of those links during the time that the outages begin
nor during the rest of the day.
Does anyone have any insight as to why these servers would stop communicating with each other about the same time every day and report errors? Also why it would magically start to work again each day without any changes being made to the network or the AD
configuration?
This has been going on for over a month now. When it first started to happen we had 1 Windows 2008 server and 2 Windows 2003 servers in the HQ. We phased out the Windows 2003 servers and upgraded the functional level to Windows 2008 - that did not solve
the problem. We tried to put a new Windows 2008 R2 server out at the COLO site hoping that if it was limited to the other server then only the one server would be impacted. But now they both appear to be having connectivity issues at the same time.
It is as if there is one hung connection that is blocking all the other syncs to this site and then someone each morning that bottleneck is released.
Thank you in advance for any direction you can provide.

As was stated above - ALL Domain Controllers have direct access to each other through Firewall to Firewall site to site VPNs and the Inter-Site Transport Links mirror that setup. So from the OS perspective any of the AD servers can directly connect to any
other one.
There are 3 IP Inter-Site Transport Links defined
HQ < - > COLO (Contains HQ and COLO sites) Cost 100 Replication Interval 15
HQ < - > BRANCH (Contains HQ and Branch sites) Cost 100 Replication Interval 15
COLO < - > BRANCH (Contains COLO and Branch sites) Cost 100 Replication Interval 15
And on IP Inter-Site Transports "Bridge all site links" is enabled (although disabling it doesn't fix this problem as we have already tried that).
Right now the servers are claiming (via Active Directory) to be unable to replicate with each other. But I am able to do direct pings as well as open stream sockets using "telnet <otherserver> <port>" on ports 3268 (gc), 88 (kerberos),
389 (ldap), 135 (replication), 636 (ldap ssl), 53 (DNS). So there is nothing that I can see between the servers that is blocking TCP connectivity.
I cannot seem to make this any clearer. The sites are 100% functional and responsive for several hours per day - and then mysteriously go into a state of complete denial for a lack of a better word for the rest of the day - only to return back to normal
again reliably each morning.
It is as if the sites get into a mode where something in the RPC area are simply refusing to talk to each other despite the servers having full access at the network level.
Another data point to add to this mystery. While it is in the state where the HQ and COLO servers are refusing to sync with each other. You can launch the AD Users and Computers snap-in, right mouse click on the domain, change the Current Directory server
and all 5 servers show up as ONLINE. You can pick any of them (including the one that is unable to replicate with) and make a direct change on that server.
So while the servers are complaining about being unable to talk to each other - the snap in is connecting between those servers and is able to modify it without issue.
Conversely - when the replication is failing the DNS management tool is unable to connect to the remote servers (i.e. COLO can show itself and the other COLO server. HQ can show PRIME, DC2, and DC4 without issue. But no overlap).
Not sure that helps at all - but shows our frustration when two servers refuse to replicate but you can easily remote connect from one to the other and make the change.

Multi Master Site replication with Snapshot features

Dear,
I am implementing a Multi Master site replication. I want to replicate Table A in MASTER SITE A to Table A in MASTER SITE B.
However, I don't want all the data from MASTER SITE A to be propagated to MASTER SITE B.I may want data that belongs to a certain criteria only to be replicated over.
I know I can achieve this in a snapshot site replication. But can this be done in a Multi Master Site replication too ?

Hai,
As far under my observation, the tables that is marked for a replication from the MASTER SITE to Child Site is an exact replica of data. Your case could be achieved only thru SNAPSHOT VIEWS/GROUPS
- [email protected]

Inter-site replication and KCC, when migrating from 2008 SP1 to 2012 R2

Hello,
We have a very simple AD infrastructure, two sites. I have built out a 2012 R2 server, extended the AD schema and promoted it to a domain controller. Reviewing the existing AD replication topology, we currently have a 2008 SP1 server as a DC
designated as the source/destination for inter-site replication, which appears to have been decided by KCC.
I will be decomming this 2008 SP1 server, having migrated off the FSMO roles to a few other DCs.
Will KCC automatically know to adjust the replication topology when the 2008 SP1 DC is offline? Should I demote it after migrating off the FSMO roles?
Thanks,
Matt

Hi,
Thanks for your post.
By default, the KCC reviews and makes modifications to the Active Directory replication topology every 15 minutes to ensure propagation of data, either directly or transitively, by creating and deleting connection objects as needed. The KCC recognizes
changes that occur in the environment and ensures that domain controllers are not orphaned in the replication topology.
For more detail information, you could refer to:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961781.aspx
For the migration, you could transfer the Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) Role and remove the Windows 2008 R2 domain controller, please refer to:
Step-By-Step: Active Directory Migration from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2
http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2014/05/28/step-by-step-active-directory-migration-from-windows-server-2008-r2-to-windows-server-2012.aspx
Regards.
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Nutanix site-to-site replication

When dealing with Nutanix protection domains, what would prevent the execution of the site-to-site replication of said protection domain?
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks Community

Hi, can you please check if network proxy settings configured in the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent are correct. This agent running on the Hyper-V host needs to be able to reach Azure. (You can find more details about this here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2014/07/07/azure-site-recovery-authenticated-proxy-server.aspx)
If that is correct, please look at event logs at “Applications and Services Logs->MicrosoftAzureRecoveryServices->Replication” and
traces at a location like C:\Program Files\Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent\Temp.
Sudhakar [MSFT]

Updatable materialized view site - replication

Hi all,
I have a shared instance database (with multiple schemas) hosting different applications for different customers. I'm now going to move out one of the application - the materialized view site to another database in new server. (as per request by customer to another data center) by using schema level import/export. The master site will remain untouched.
As i'm rather new in replication, I would like your advise in which data dictionary tables where I can find which are the schemas having the below privileges. As this is a legacy database handed over to us long back, i need to dig out all the info to plan for the migratiion. I need to identify which schema is taking part in the snapshot replication in the mview site as there are 20 over schemas in the database. Can anyone advise me? Kindly provide addtional info if u think it helps.
grant_admin_any_schema
privilege_type => 'proxy_snapadmin'
privilege_type => 'receiver'
privilege_type => 'propagator'
thanks

dba_sys_privs

All Site Replication connection from particular one Server

Hi,
I have AD structure with multiple Site. All site have one Domain Controller. But KCC automatically create
connection from one particular server (DC) for all site DC.
Example : I have 5 Site and 5 DC. Each DC belongs to each site. I check all DC create "automatically generated"
connection from DC5 only. I don't want to create manual replication connection. I want kcc is generated connection from different server ( from DC2).
It is possible ?

Each DC belongs to a specific site?
To have KCC make 'smart' connections, the easiest and preffered way is to define site links and define an appropriate cost to them. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794882%28v=ws.10%29.aspx KCC
will use the connection with lowest cost that is available to create a replication connection.
If you have multiple dc's in one site, you can make the dc that has to handle replication 'preferred bridgehead' http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776937(v=ws.10).aspx
Note it is indeed best practice not to create manual replication connections, but to have KCC handle it. That will ensure that if network downtime occurs on an important link, KCC can 'failover' to other connections while maintaining consistency.
MCP/MCSA/MCTS/MCITP

Onsite Hyper-v servers to Azure Site Replication

Hi
I am trying to create a Virtual Machine replication between on site Hyper-V 2012 R2 core server and Azure without SCVMM. When I run the Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Provider setup and on the Recovery Registration Wizard as soon as i Click browse
to upload the Vault key file I get the below error. How do I resolve this error ?
Regards
gprajan
Regards Gprajan

Hi,
Please follow the below steps to solve your issue.
1) Open an Admin Command Prompt
2) Browse to the install location of Azure Site Recovery Provider (usually it is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Provider\
3) Run the following command
DRConfigurator.exe /r /Credentials <PathtoRegistrationKeyFile> /FriendlyName <NameOfHyper-VHost>
Regards,
Anoop KV

Sccm site replication failing

Dear Sir
Please find the attached logs. I am facing issue with the replication of the sites.
the replication analyser show following xml output
<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<ReplicationLinkAnalysis>
-<IsServiceRunning serverName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com" serviceName="SMS_EXECUTIVE">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</IsServiceRunning>
-<IsServiceRunning serverName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com" serviceName="SMS_EXECUTIVE">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</IsServiceRunning>
-<IsComponentRunning serverName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com" componentName="SMS_REPLICATION_CONFIGURATION_MONITOR" siteCode="PUN">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</IsComponentRunning>
-<IsComponentRunning serverName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com" componentName="SMS_REPLICATION_CONFIGURATION_MONITOR" siteCode="WNR">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</IsComponentRunning>
-<IsSqlDynamicPortEnabled SqlInstanceName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</IsSqlDynamicPortEnabled>
-<IsSqlDynamicPortEnabled SqlInstanceName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="Dynamic ports are supported on secondary sites." Name="result"/>
</Description>
</IsSqlDynamicPortEnabled>
-<IsSqlVersionCorrect sqlServerName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="The SQL version Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP2) - 10.50.4000.0 (X64) Jun 28 2012 08:36:30 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor) is correct."
Name="result"/>
</Description>
</IsSqlVersionCorrect>
-<IsSqlVersionCorrect sqlServerName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="The SQL version Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP2) - 10.50.4000.0 (X64) Jun 28 2012 08:36:30 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor) is correct."
Name="result"/>
</Description>
</IsSqlVersionCorrect>
-<IsNetworkDownBetweenSites targetSiteServer="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com" sourceSiteServer="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</IsNetworkDownBetweenSites>
-<IsDatabaseOutOfSpace SqlInstanceName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com" minimumFreeSpacePercentage="5" databaseName="CM_PUN">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="Sufficient space detected for database CM_PUN in atleast one of the data and log files" Name="result"/>
</Description>
</IsDatabaseOutOfSpace>
-<IsDatabaseOutOfSpace SqlInstanceName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com" minimumFreeSpacePercentage="5" databaseName="CM_WNR">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="Sufficient space detected for database CM_WNR in atleast one of the data and log files" Name="result"/>
</Description>
</IsDatabaseOutOfSpace>
-<IsDatabaseOutOfSpace SqlInstanceName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com" minimumFreeSpacePercentage="5" databaseName="tempdb">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="Sufficient space detected for database tempdb in atleast one of the data and log files" Name="result"/>
</Description>
</IsDatabaseOutOfSpace>
-<IsDatabaseOutOfSpace SqlInstanceName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com" minimumFreeSpacePercentage="5" databaseName="tempdb">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="Sufficient space detected for database tempdb in atleast one of the data and log files" Name="result"/>
</Description>
</IsDatabaseOutOfSpace>
-<DoesBrokerConfigurationExist SqlInstanceName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com" SiteCode="PUN" ssbPort="4022">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="True" Name="isServiceBrokerRouteConfigCorrect"/>
<Detail Value="True" Name="isServiceBrokerLoginConfigCorrect"/>
<Detail Value="True" Name="isValidEndpointCertificateExists"/>
<Detail Value="True" Name="isServiceBrokerConfigCorrect"/>
<Detail Value="True" Name="isServiceBrokerLoginCertificateCorrect"/>
</Description>
</DoesBrokerConfigurationExist>
-<DoesBrokerConfigurationExist SqlInstanceName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com" SiteCode="WNR" ssbPort="4022">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="True" Name="isServiceBrokerRouteConfigCorrect"/>
<Detail Value="True" Name="isServiceBrokerLoginConfigCorrect"/>
<Detail Value="True" Name="isValidEndpointCertificateExists"/>
<Detail Value="True" Name="isServiceBrokerConfigCorrect"/>
<Detail Value="True" Name="isServiceBrokerLoginCertificateCorrect"/>
</Description>
</DoesBrokerConfigurationExist>
-<DoesBrokerCertificateMatch targetServerName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com" sourceServerName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com" sourceSiteCode="PUN" targetSiteCode="WNR">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="True" Name="sourceHasCorrectCertificate"/>
<Detail Value="True" Name="targetHasCorrectCertificate"/>
</Description>
</DoesBrokerCertificateMatch>
-<IsBrokerDisabled siteCode="PUN" sqlServerName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="Broker is enabled on CM_PUN, msdb and temdb databases." Name="result"/>
</Description>
</IsBrokerDisabled>
-<IsBrokerDisabled siteCode="WNR" sqlServerName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="Broker is enabled on CM_WNR, msdb and temdb databases." Name="result"/>
</Description>
</IsBrokerDisabled>
-<IsSysCommitTabError SqlInstanceName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="Change tracking state is healthy." Name="result"/>
</Description>
</IsSysCommitTabError>
-<IsSysCommitTabError SqlInstanceName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="Change tracking state is healthy." Name="result"/>
</Description>
</IsSysCommitTabError>
-<IsQueueDisabled serverName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com" queueNameList="ConfigMgrDRSQueue, ConfigMgrDRSSiteQueue, ConfigMgrRCMQueue">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</IsQueueDisabled>
-<IsQueueDisabled serverName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com" queueNameList="ConfigMgrDRSQueue, ConfigMgrRCMQueue">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</IsQueueDisabled>
-<IsRcmCreateInstanceWorking siteCode="PUN" siteServerName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</IsRcmCreateInstanceWorking>
-<IsRcmCreateInstanceWorking siteCode="WNR" siteServerName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</IsRcmCreateInstanceWorking>
-<IsTimeInSync targetSite="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com" sourceSite="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</IsTimeInSync>
-<IsTransmissionStuck SqlInstanceName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com" sourceSqlServerName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="Target site WNR is in maintenance mode. Not checking transmission messages sent to queue ConfigMgrDRSQueue. Target site WNR is in maintenance mode. Not checking transmission messages sent to queue ConfigMgrDRSQueue. " Name="result"/>
</Description>
</IsTransmissionStuck>
-<IsTransmissionStuck SqlInstanceName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com" sourceSqlServerName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</IsTransmissionStuck>
-<IsSiteActive SiteCode="WNR">
<Result HasPassed="False" HasRun="True"/>
-<Description>
<ErrorMessage Content="Site WNR is not publisher for replication patterns global"/>
<Detail Value="Sender or despooler issues for replication groups Secondary_Site_Replication_Configuration. Replication initialization is in progress for replication groups Secondary Site Data. " Name="result"/>
</Description>
</IsSiteActive>
-<RuleRemediationSteps>
-<RuleRemediationStep Name="CallForInitializationSenderChannelIssues">
<Parameter Value="PUN" Index="0"/>
<Parameter Value="WNR" Index="1"/>
<Parameter Value="Secondary_Site_Replication_Configuration" Index="2"/>
</RuleRemediationStep>
-<RuleRemediationStep Name="CallForInitializationIssues">
<Parameter Value="WNR" Index="0"/>
<Parameter Value="PUN" Index="1"/>
<Parameter Value="Secondary Site Data" Index="2"/>
</RuleRemediationStep>
</RuleRemediationSteps>
-<DoesKeyConflictExist serverName="WIL-PUNE-SCCM.walchand.com" siteCode="PUN">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</DoesKeyConflictExist>
-<DoesKeyConflictExist serverName="WIL-WNR-sccm.walchand.com" siteCode="WNR">
<Result HasPassed="True" HasRun="True"/>
<Description/>
</DoesKeyConflictExist>
+<CheckDegradedLinks SiteCode="WNR">
-<CheckDegradedLinks SiteCode="PUN">
<Result HasPassed="False" HasRun="False"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="Site WNR or PUN are in maintenance mode. Skipping check for degraded links." Name="result"/>
</Description>
</CheckDegradedLinks>
-<CheckFailedLinks SiteCode="WNR">
<Result HasPassed="False" HasRun="False"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="Site PUN or WNR are in maintenance mode. Skipping check for failed links." Name="result"/>
</Description>
</CheckFailedLinks>
-<CheckFailedLinks SiteCode="PUN">
<Result HasPassed="False" HasRun="False"/>
-<Description>
<Detail Value="Site WNR or PUN are in maintenance mode. Skipping check for failed links." Name="result"/>
</Description>
</CheckFailedLinks>
</ReplicationLinkAnalysis>
in a nut shell its showing that either site is in maintenance mode what to do next ?

Hi,
check the sender.log and schedule.log on the central server for any errors in sending files to the problematic Primary server
Also check the Despool.log and schedule.log on the problematic primary server to see if you can any errors.
Also confirm the address for the problematic primary server is configured correctly on the central server and confirm that the sender is configured correctly on the problematic primary server to point to the central server.
Also ensure that the central servers computer account has administrative rights to the problematic primary server
Also ensure that the computer account for each server is a member of the site_to_site_connection local group on each server. (the central computer account should belong to the group on the primary and visa versa)
Thanks, Prabha G

What is Publication, Subscription, Site, Replication

Hello,
What is Publication, Subscription, Site. what is diff between publication and subscription.
ram

Hi,
here you will find the answer to all of your questions.
[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm60/helpdata/en/7e/df9e38a5d62632e10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm]
Regards,
Wolfhard

Block Based replication of Domain Controllers to DR site

I have to bring up a business critical application at a DR site using the same hostname and IP address as in production site. For this purpose, I plan to use a block replication software to replicate data from production servers to a SAN at the DR site.
For DR invocation or testing, I am planning to take a snapshot from the SAN, create virtual disks and attach them to newly created VM's at the DR site.
This application depends on Active Directory and hence I need to have a domain controller at the DR site. If I create a new domain controller for the DR site, as it will be in a separate IP subnet, it will have to be in a separate AD site and the application
servers will not be able to use this domain controllers, as they will look for domain controllers in their AD site (which is from the production site). If I put the domain controller in the same IP subnet as the application servers, the same IP subnet has
user workstations and hence user authentication requests from production site will start coming to the DR site across the WAN.
In this scenario, I am proposing to replicate the domain controllers also from the production site to the DR site, like the application servers. But I am not sure if block replication of production DC's to DR site and then when required for testing/invocation,
can we create a new VM and attaching virtual hard disks with the replicated data, will bring these VM's up as domain controllers in the DR site or will they have any negative effects ? Would this be a supported solution ? Any response will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

You don't want to run any type of duplicated software to clone the DC, that is a bad idea. You could end up with lingering objects and/or Directory Service corruption.
If you want the DC's to exist in the same subnet then you are in a quandry. You can start to modify srv records so the DC won't authenticate clients (BUt you will have to manually change that at DR time).
I have a Blog that talks about lag site replication that blocks clients from ever attempting to authenticate to the DC, you should be able to use this same logic.
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/paulbergson/archive/2013/05/14/how-to-build-an-ad-replication-delay-lag-site.aspx
You will want to create yourself a group policy that prevents the DC in the DR site from registering records that will advertise itself as an authenticating DC. If you need to use the DR site, you will need to remove the gpo and either reboot the DC
or run a gpupdate and restart NetLogon on the DC so it will register the records so the clients can then use this DC.
Paul Bergson
MVP - Directory Services
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SCCM 2012 Site communication and data replication

Hi,
Is there any videos or diagrams which is clearly explaining the site communication, data replication, file based replication?
Regards,
MTM

Hi,
The blogs below might be helpful, you could have a look.
Data Replication in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
SCCM
ConfigMgr 2012 Site to Site replication and SQL Replication
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May Release: New partner support, Infrastructure updates, Site templates and bug fixes

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Partner support
Updated Help & Support partner experience
Following Adobe ID support, we have upgraded BC support tools (cases, chat, documentation) with standard Adobe tools. As a partner, you can now benefit from the same support tools as the rest of Adobe Creative Suite, and can track your support cases with Adobe BC, Dreamweaver, Muse or Photoshop in a single place.
Partners with more than 100 paid sites will get 2nd level chat support, which includes a higher priority, by default. If you have more than 100 paid sites, but spread across different Partner Portals, please ask support to enable 2nd level chat for you.
Support experience for your Small Business owner clients can now be owned by partners (see below).
Custom Help & Support URL for your clients
As a partner, you are probably already offering various additional services to your clients besides building & maintaining their BC site. Support, tailored specifically to your client needs, is usually one of these value-added services. We are now enabling you to take your Support service to the next level. In Partner Portal Settings, you have the option to set a custom URL for what will open when your client clicks on Help & Support inside Admin Console:
If you have multiple partner accounts, for different verticals, you can specify a Support URL for each of these.
The default Support experience provided by BC for your clients will be updated in a few releases to be similar to the partner support experience. This includes BC-branded support cases and documentation. If you'd like to keep a white-label experience for your customers, please set your own Help & Support URL in Partner Portal.
For more details please read the Improved support workflow and new forums announcement on our blog.
Infrastructure updates
Between our April release and the following infrastructure updates have been enabled
Limited trial sites for free partners – starting with our May release, the number of trial sites a Free Partner can have will be limited to 100. Once the limit is reached, Free Partners that need to create a new trial site have the options to upgrade to a higher partner plan, upgrade some of the trial sites to paid or delete unused/expired trials.
Automatic trial expiry extension - with this release, trial site expiry date will be automatically extended with 30 days every time an admin user logs in the system through the admin interface or through FTP.
Installed additional hardware - we have installed additional web servers on all our data centers, that translate into an increase of the existing capacity with over 70%.
Updated DNS infrastructure - we have improved the DNS resolution for email delivery so that we can increase the rate at which we're sending the system operational emails
HTTP acceleration – all sites static assets are served from a new cache engine (images, CSS and JavaScript files, together with improved headers that should allow the browser to cache them better for a browsing session). This update has been turned on along with our April release, and has made all the BC sites load faster on first and on subsequent loads.
Accelerated site/partner creation – we've changed the way new sites are created for faster speed, pre-creating them and reusing pre-created sites when needed, and have also improved the creation process for new partners, minimizing the impact of new CCM customers on the existing datacenters.
Adobe ID for partners - in order to support an integrating experience between the various Adobe tools a partner may use (Dreamweaver, Muse, Support forums) we have added Adobe ID support for Business Catalyst partner accounts. Starting April 19, partners are asked to merge their current Business Catalyst account with their Adobe ID accounts. For more details about the transition process and FAQ please read the Introducing Adobe ID blog post.
Updated Terms of Use - Along with several other changes in our processes in the past few months, we also revamped our Terms of Use and the signature process by requesting every admin user to sign a TOU. We have completed the rollout for partners, and we might be pushing an updated partner Terms of Use version within the following weeks. For more details and questions about this change, read the New Terms of Use for Business Catalyst blog post.
Features and enhancements
Site templates
To support the increasing number of partners building, sharing or reusing templates to create new sites, we're extending our site templates support from our partner portal with a new template type and improved management support. The update is going to enable partners to mark sites as templates and choose between making them available in Online Business Builder and keeping them private in their partner portal. A template site will not expire and has the same limits as any other trial site.
Based on your partner level, you can create private or public templates using the Site Details screen or the Tools>My Site Template section from your Partner Portal. Standard partners can only create private templates, while Free Partners can only view site templates that have been transferred to their accounts by other partners.
The number of templates a partner will have will be limited and will vary based on partner level: free partners can store up to 5 templates in their partner portal, standard partners have up to 100 site templates while Premium Partners might have up to 200 templates. Paid sites marked as templates are not counted against these limits.
Business Catalyst Partner fixes
While we are really focused on making the Business Catalyst integration into Creative Cloud a smashing success, we are slowly resuming our efforts to deliver fixes that have been requested by our partners. This release includes the following partner fixes:
Improved product custom fields - we have increased the maximum number of characters for product custom fields to 1024 (previous limit was 256); this gives partners and customers additional space to use when working with products
Improved Secure Zone subscribers list - we have added the customer email address in the Secure Zone Subscribers list to enable partners better filter and manage customers
Better experience when exporting data - to prevent customer confusion when exporting data from Mac computers, we have removed the export to excel option and exporting in CSV format by default.
Social plugins integration updates
Starting with our May release, we are updating the social plugins support to require users to get the plugin code from the third party provider and saving into his Business Catalyst website. The module tags and configuration will remain unchanged, but will render an empty tag until the partner or site owner will update the module template to include the corresponding module code snippet from the third party platform provider.
For more information about how you can enable the Social Plugins on a Business Catalyst websites, read the Social Media: Integrating Facebook and Twitter knowledge base article.
Other changes
Updated weekly emails - Starting with our May release, the information in the site weekly emails has been filtered based on the site's plan. For example, webBasics site reports will no longer include the sales report.
Localization - we improved and increased the coverage of the admin interface translations into German, French and Japanese
Site Settings -> Ignored IP addresses has been relocated under Reports -> Visitors -> More.
BC-Dreamweaver integration performance improvements
Development Dashboard has been removed, as it didn't provide a clear useful, ongoing benefit. The information present in the development dashboard has been integrated into our new Help & Support section.
Payment gateway settings - for more privacy and data protection, we have updated the Payment Gateway configuration screens to obfuscate the sensitive login information. Fields that have been obfuscated are now requiring confirmation.
Report abuse badge on trial sites - for compliance reasons, a "Report Abuse" link has been added to the front-end of all trial sites of free partners that don't have any paid sites. When they click the Report Abuse link, site visitors are redirected to a form submission page on businesscatalyst.com site.
Issues fixed by May release
Issues 3051303, 3168786 - Workflow notifications - Fixed a problem preventing workflow notifications emails from being sent.(see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Issue 3164074 - Fixed a bug causing the lightbox gallery created from Muse to be displayed behind page elements
Issue 3162810 - Fixed a bug in rendering engine to prevent content placed between body and head tags being incorrectly moved inside the body tag
Issue 3166610 - Fixed a broken link to Partner Portal in Internet Explorer
Issue 3175003 - Fixed an issue that caused an incorrect price display for the Year One-Off Setup Fee when upgrading a site from Admin using CB
Issue 2567278 - Fixed a bug causing site replication to ignore product attributes
Issue 2947989 - CRM passwords are now case sensitive
Issue 2723731 - Removed CSS files from the head section of the Layouts files, when downloaded and opened in Dreamweaver, via the BC extension
Business Catalyst new admin interface updates
Added "Save and Add New" button in Web App Item Add & Edit screens (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Updated Quick Actions menus to add more actions (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Fixed an issue causing Recent items menu to display deleted items (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Fixed a display issue on File Manager making top buttons unreachable (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Fixed the scrollbars in Email Marketing>Campaign>Stats>Bounced Emails reports (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Fixed an issue causing Recent items menu to brake after selecting the current page from the Recent Items menu (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Replaced the Success notification displayed when selecting Users or Permissions tabs from User Roles with an Warning
Change the action label displayed in User Roles list from View to Edit to match the list pattern from Admin Users
Fixed a missing file JavaScript error occurring when trying to open image manager from product details-> Attributes -> options
Moved System Emails section from Site Setting to Site Manager (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Updated Domain Management interfaces to close the modal window and refresh the domain list after successfully adding a domain
Fixed an issue preventing the Hyperlink Manager to function properly (see get satisfaction forum discussion)
Updated the confirmation message received after copying a page to match the new workflow and button names
Fixed an issue causing the current screen or section to not be highlighted in the menu
Updated styling on the new dashboard, user management and email accounts interfaces
Updated dashboard reports filters and chart display; made the chart and the filter use the site time zone
Fixed an issue preventing users from inviting new admin users or create new email accounts on Internet Explorer 8
Fixed an issue preventing users from deleting Email Accounts or Admin Users in Internet Explorer 8
Fixed some issues preventing password recovery email from being sent
Removed the alert message displayed when the user or email account limit has been reached
Added localization for the simplified dashboard
Fixed display issues for site limits, domains and user list in the simplified dashboard
Added Custom reports for webBasics plan
Fixed a bug generating a "500:Collection error" on the simplified dashboard when user did not had View users permission
Added TOU checkbox in the email account setup screen
Updated Site Preview link in the dashboard to load the default domain
Fixed an issue in the new File Manager forcing a user to press Undo twice in order to see the change take effect if the code that was previously formatted contained any <"tag" with more than 2 lines
Fixed an issue causing the File Manager editor toolbar to incorrectly render if page URL path is longer than certain value; starting with this release, the site URL is trimmed
Fixed an issue causing the invite users to be displayed as [object Object] in dashboard and admin user list
Fixed a bug in the new admin causing the interface to become unresponsive when using the browser Back button
Fixed an issue in the new File Manager causing "Save Draft" button to publish the default page template instead of creating a draft version
Fixed a broken invite link issue in the Email Account invite email
Updated loading indicators in File Manager and Email Accounts screens
What's next
The first item on the what's next list might not be news for many of you, but it's definitely one of the most important milestones this year. The Creative Cloud launch is just around the corner, and Business Catalyst is playing an important role in that, as the publishing platform for Adobe® Muse and Dreamweaver. This launch will capture all our attention within the next weeks as we want it to be our best ever.
We'll start our next development cycle on May 15th, while the next Business Catalyst release is going to be pushed live in mid June. That being said, the following items are already on our launch plan for the next release and a few more will join the list. Please expect an update on our 2012 plans around mid May.
HTTP throttling – all page load and API calls to BC will be protected against attacks, this might trigger problems for API heavy sites. We are looking into enabling this update along with our June release, and will help make sure that a reasonable number of requests will be accepted from the same computer per minute.
Automatic site deletion - Starting with the June release, we are going to start automatically delete expired trial sites and canceled sites. Customers will be notified twice before we are going to proceed with deleting the sites.
Thank you,
Cristinel Anastasoaie
Adobe Business Catalyst Product Manager

In reference to this change in the Custom Reports... Better experience when exporting data - to prevent customer confusion when exporting data from Mac computers, we have removed the export to excel option and exporting in CSV format by default.
What is the customer confusion we are trying to stop here? I've got even more confused customers at the moment because all of a sudden they can't find the export to excel option but know it exists if they log in on a PC?
Mark

Chatty replication protocol (2.6 messages per transaction): bad settings?

Hi,
I'm trying to determine why for a two-site replication setup (Linux, BDB 4.6.21 with the latest patch) it seems like a single transaction can take up to 100 ms to be replicated under heavy load when the non-replicated transaction takes 5 ms.
The transaction in question is a fully-synchronized update (ie: a commit at site R1 should not return until R2 has also committed and flushed the transaction to disk), and there are only two sites in the replication group, the master and the replica.
Here are the statistics I gathered from my application, at the replica after it was promoted to the master (the master having been killed):
Replication: txnsApplied=3584, repMsgsProcessed=9390, repMsgsSent=17, repMsgsSendFailures=4, nextLSN=1/1162804, nextPages=0, pagesRecords=6, pagesRequested=0, status=3, waitingLSN=0/0, waitingPages=0
Replication Manager: connectionAttemptsFailed=0, connectionsDropped=1, repMessagesDropped=0, repMessagesQueued=0, permFailed=4
It seems like the replication protocol is quite chatty (2.6 messages per transaction), which may explain some of the latency.
I use 2048-byte pages, and the typical transaction size is no more than 1024 bytes; I experimented with relaxing the transactional guarantees (setTxnNoSync et al) but had a similar experience.
Does anyone have any suggestions for this environment configuration to increase the throughput of this kind of replication setup? Your help would be kindly appreciated.

Replication: txnsApplied=3584, repMsgsProcessed=9390,
repMsgsSent=17, repMsgsSendFailures=4,
nextLSN=1/1162804, nextPages=0, pagesRecords=6,
pagesRequested=0, status=3, waitingLSN=0/0,
waitingPages=0
Replication Manager: connectionAttemptsFailed=0,
connectionsDropped=1, repMessagesDropped=0,
repMessagesQueued=0, permFailed=4
It seems like the replication protocol is quite
chatty (2.6 messages per transaction), which may
explain some of the latency.The replication protocol is that each log record written to the
log is also transmitted to the client. Therefore, if your transaction
has a lot of operations, or if even a single update results in several
log records written (splitting a page, for example), each of those
log records will be transmitted to the client.
Does anyone have any suggestions for this environment
configuration to increase the throughput of this kind
of replication setup? Your help would be kindly
appreciated.You can try the bulk message configuration option. Look at
the dbenv->rep_set_config method with the DB_REP_CONF_BULK
flag. That option collects the log records locally in memory and
then sends them all either on a txn_commit operation or if the
buffer fills up. That should result in fewer messages.
However, it is also interesting that there were 4 message send failures
as well as 4 permFailed counts in your statistics. It is likely whatever
caused those resulted in some messages to rerequest the missing
records.
Sue LoVerso
Oracle

AD changes not replicating when I move a DC to the correct site

I have created a site in AD Sites and Services for our branch office. However, when i place the RWDC in the correct site replication stops. New user accounts and changes made to that DC do not replicate back to us.
I am pretty sure there is not a firewall issue because everything works fine when the site is moved back to the same site with the other two domain controllers. However, my goal is to make sure that users authenticate to the geographically closest
DC.
There is a site-link created between the two sites.
The correct subnet (a /20) is assigned to the site.
I ran the AD Replication Status Tool with no errors, but when i create a test user on the branch office DC it does not replicate back over to the other DC's.
Any tips on what i should look for/try next?

Hi,
You can check the replication status using the below command,
repadmin /showrepl
To initiate the replication the local_DC and target_DC use the below command,
repadmin /showreps target_DC_name
Checkou the below link on initiating replication between Active Directory Direct Replication Partners
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232072/en-us
Checkout the below link on similar discussion,
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/59e25e9c-fecd-46cd-87d1-103440b36a0f/after-moving-additional-domain-controller-server-to-another-site-replication-fails-with-in-sites?forum=winserverDS
Regards,
Gopi
JiJi Technologies

Site Replication

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