Disabling Replication Compression

By default, intersite AD replication is compressed so as to reduce the bandwidth consumption required. The drawback to this technique is that extra CPU cycles are required on the DCs to properly compress and decompress this data. Windows Server 2012 allows designers the flexibility to turn off this compression, if an organization is short on processor time and long on bandwidth, so to speak.

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