File Replication

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Sunil

Hi ,

There was a real strange problem in my network ,All of a
sudden we found that the group policy was not
effective ,On further analyzis we found that sysvol folder
was empty .This was restored and everything was fine .

But all of a sudden we found the problem re-occured ,On
further analyzis we found that the problem occured when we
initaited a disk clean up in any one of our AD servers .
Later we found that there was a folder called as sysvol1
in the temp directory of one of our AD servers ,when the
contents of the sysvol1 was deleted then automatically it
wouls delete teh contents of the sysvol directory .

The final solution what we have done is to stop FRS delete
the sysvol dir recreated sysvol and started sysvol all
over again .

Can any one tell me the reason for the same .

Thanks in advance

Sunil
 
You have inadvertently created a Junction Point in the temp folder by the
sounds of it. This was probably caused by an admin copying the sysvol folder
to that temp folder for some temporary backup purpose.
When you make a copy of sysvol, eg by dragging and dropping a copy to your
desktop, you create this junction point and everything begins to replicate
to the new folder. Conversely, when you delete the folder this deletion also
replicates throughout the network.
This only applies to Windows 2000, Windows 2003 does not have this feature.
Use the information in the following article to delete the junction point.
Even if you have got rid of that extra sysvol you will probably find you
have a lot of FRS errors as AD will still be trying to replicate to it.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=205524
 
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