How can I recreate automatically connected connections?

[John]

Hi all,

I just check the Active Directory sites and services and found the
connections are not automatically created. I remember that I only change the
replication schedule. How do I get the Automatically created connection
back? two sites and one DC located on each site. Windows 2003 SP1.

[Jeremy]

If you edit an automatically created replication connection it is then
considered a manual connection. Where did you edit the schedule?

Post by John
Hi all,
I just check the Active Directory sites and services and found the
connections are not automatically created. I remember that I only change the
replication schedule. How do I get the Automatically created connection
back? two sites and one DC located on each site. Windows 2003 SP1.

[John]

Thanks for the reply. I edited the schedule in the properties of the
automatically generated under NTDS settings under Domain controller Server in
the Active Directory sites and services. Is there a way to reverse?

Post by Jeremy
If you edit an automatically created replication connection it is then
considered a manual connection. Where did you edit the schedule?

Post by John
Hi all,
I just check the Active Directory sites and services and found the
connections are not automatically created. I remember that I only change the
replication schedule. How do I get the Automatically created connection
back? two sites and one DC located on each site. Windows 2003 SP1.

[Yann]

Hi,

2 ways to do that:
1) i think that deleting the object connection will force the kcc to
recreate one object connection that the KCC will own.
2) make the KCC the owner of the object connection by setting the options
attribute at a value of 1 or 3. I know that for w2k, the value is 1. It seems
to me that the value for w2k3 is 3.
see :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/distrib/dsbh_rep_yufa.mspx?mfr=true

Of cource for 1) and 2), test in a test env.

Yann

Post by John
Thanks for the reply. I edited the schedule in the properties of the
automatically generated under NTDS settings under Domain controller Server in
the Active Directory sites and services. Is there a way to reverse?

Post by Jeremy
If you edit an automatically created replication connection it is then
considered a manual connection. Where did you edit the schedule?

Post by John
Hi all,
I just check the Active Directory sites and services and found the
connections are not automatically created. I remember that I only change the
replication schedule. How do I get the Automatically created connection
back? two sites and one DC located on each site. Windows 2003 SP1.

[Harj]

Post by Yann
Hi,
1) i think that deleting the object connection will force the kcc to
recreate one object connection that the KCC will own.
2) make the KCC the owner of the object connection by setting the options
attribute at a value of 1 or 3. I know that for w2k, the value is 1. It seems
to me that the value for w2k3 is 3.
see :http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/d...
Of cource for 1) and 2), test in a test env.
Yann

Post by John
Thanks for the reply. I edited the schedule in the properties of the
automatically generated under NTDS settings under Domain controller Server in
the Active Directory sites and services. Is there a way to reverse?

Post by Jeremy
If you edit an automatically created replication connection it is then
considered a manual connection. Where did you edit the schedule?

Post by John
Hi all,
I just check the Active Directory sites and services and found the
connections are not automatically created. I remember that I only change the
replication schedule. How do I get the Automatically created connection
back? two sites and one DC located on each site. Windows 2003 SP1.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Hi,

By default the KCC runs on all the DC's every 15 mins. All that is
needed to do is to make sure your DNS is set correctly. (and don't
just test it with pinging).
Delete the manual connections objects and restart ntfrs, or just right
click the NTDSsettings under the DC's within Sites and Services, all
tasks and then check replication topology after deletion.
Look over the event logs for any errors.

Good luck

Harj Singh
Power Your Active Directory Investment
www.specopssoft.com

[Jack Doyle]

Once you have edited the connection, it will be considered to be
manually created and thus you are managing it. If you want it to
become automatically generated again, you may simply delete it.
Whether or not that is the preferred method, I have never researched.
But it has always worked like a charm when I have done it.

Again, even after the KCC (Knowledge Consistency Checker) recreates
it, if you edit the schedule again, you'll be back where you were.

Regards,
Jack Doyle, Systems Engineer
ScriptLogic Corporation
http://www.scriptlogic.com