Group Policy Replication
As mentioned earlier, the Active Directory portion of the group policy is replicated using normal AD replication mechanisms. On the other hand, the file-based portion—the group policy template—is replicated using the file replication service.
File Replication Service
The file replication service (FRS) is automatically installed and configured on every Domain Controller. No management console exists for FRS. The FRS replicates changes to group policy templates to all other DCs in the domain. One example of this is a change to an administrative templates setting in the group policy, which would cause a change in the registry.pol file. This change then would be replicated to all other DCs in the domain so that, when a user ...
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