Most of the time Active Directory replication seems to work pretty well. When the replication process does break down however, troubleshooting the problem can sometimes be surprisingly difficult.

Minimal Python parser for repadmin replication metadata listings. There's no unambiguous (nor context-free) output format for that Microsoft tool, so I developed this small parser to put everything ...

repadmin /syncall /Aed should replicate all name contexts enterprise wide. The 'A' must be capital in this particular case. What are you trying to solve? Don't forget to take DNS server & client cache ...