DFS Replication Health Report

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J Ford

2007-12-13 00:17:01 UTC

Anyone ever seen the following error when running a "DFS Replication Health
Report"?

The report runs, but "Servers Unavailable for Reporting" shows that my
servers "Cannot retrieve report".

I googled around and found a couple of links (below), but they either
dead-end and/or I don't have firewalls to blame. Any ideas? Here are the
links I found:

http://www.winserverkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/windows-server-dfs-frs/1304/DFS-Replication-Health-Report-Problems

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/29070438/error-in-dfs-replication.aspx

Thanks!

Jeff

2007-12-17 17:10:01 UTC

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Do you have 1 way replication from "Server1" to "Server2" or are they both
fully replicating in full mesh and both enabled on connections? Reason I
ask, I have a replication group where Server1 replicates to Server2(hotsite)
and do not allow anyone to connect directly to Server2. I also have it where
if any changes were made on Server2 they will NOT replicate the changes back
to Server1. With this in place my health report shows that my Server2 part
of report is "Unable to retrieve report" since it has nothing to compare
itself to. Server1 can since it will compare itself with the replication on
Server2, but this is only one way replication in my scenario.

Post by J Ford
Anyone ever seen the following error when running a "DFS Replication Health
Report"?
The report runs, but "Servers Unavailable for Reporting" shows that my
servers "Cannot retrieve report".
I googled around and found a couple of links (below), but they either
dead-end and/or I don't have firewalls to blame. Any ideas? Here are the
http://www.winserverkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/windows-server-dfs-frs/1304/DFS-Replication-Health-Report-Problems
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/29070438/error-in-dfs-replication.aspx
Thanks!

J Ford

2007-12-24 16:19:01 UTC

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It's full mesh. Never did get this working and this was in my lab
environment and after I found/applied http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912154.

However, I could not reproduce this problem in my production domain. Report
runs fine (as long as http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912154 is applied).

Post by Jeff
Do you have 1 way replication from "Server1" to "Server2" or are they both
fully replicating in full mesh and both enabled on connections? Reason I
ask, I have a replication group where Server1 replicates to Server2(hotsite)
and do not allow anyone to connect directly to Server2. I also have it where
if any changes were made on Server2 they will NOT replicate the changes back
to Server1. With this in place my health report shows that my Server2 part
of report is "Unable to retrieve report" since it has nothing to compare
itself to. Server1 can since it will compare itself with the replication on
Server2, but this is only one way replication in my scenario.