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We hope that you have found this information helpful and have picked up a new tool or two to add to your arsenal for checking and maintaining the health of your Active Directory.

As you’ve seen, tools such as DCDiag and NetDiag provide quick feedback indicating how a given domain controller is doing in terms of network and directory connectivity. Tools such as SONAR allow you to maintain an ongoing view of FRS replication and allow you to chart the long-term health of replication. Having this sort of long-term trend enables you to quickly spot situations that are out of the ordinary so that you can quickly respond to them.

We discussed the importance of a properly designed and maintained DNS infrastructure and described how ...

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