Rename Replication Group

[Kamlesh]

This might be stupid question.

Why doesn't Microsoft allow renaming of replication group ?

I see no GUI or Command line way to rename a replication group. (DFSR)
I am afraid, if I delete and recreate the replication group, it would mean
lot of unnecessary processing on servers for initial sync.

Is there a better way to do it?

I know a hack, as in editing the DFSR details in configuration partition of
AD. But I don't know how safe is that. and What am I missing which will haunt
me in future, If I follow that.

[unknown]

Hope this helps someone that sees this post. I was able to rename a replication group by using ADSI Edit (adsiedit.msc). Here is the method I used:

Open adsiedit.msc on one of you domain controllers, expand the top-level 'Domain' tree, expand CN=System, expand CN=DFSR-GlobalSettings, right-click CN=[replication group name], select 'Rename', change the name to CN=[new replication group name], expand CN=[new replication group name] and check to make sure that all child objects are using the new name.

Once the change is made you may received some errors while the changes are replicated throughout your network, but eventually it will all sync back up. At least it did for me.

P.S. - Please be careful using the ADSI Edit utility as you can corrupt your Active Directory configuration by changing the values incorrectly. I suggest you test the changes in development before deploying to production.

David Hazar




Kamles wrote:

Rename Replication Group
02-Jan-08

This might be stupid question.

Why does not Microsoft allow renaming of replication group ?

I see no GUI or Command line way to rename a replication group. (DFSR)
I am afraid, if I delete and recrea

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On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:21 AM
Kamles wrote:

Rename Replication Group
This might be stupid question.

Why does not Microsoft allow renaming of replication group ?

I see no GUI or Command line way to rename a replication group. (DFSR)
I am afraid, if I delete and recrea

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