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Check Group Policy infrastructure health for a domain

Hi,
I am trying to check the GPO replication status for a domain.
I am not very experienced with GPOs, apparently MS advises to do this to check:

  1. Run an infrastructure status report for a domain or for a GPO:

    1. For an entire domain   In the GPMC console tree, click the name of the domain for which you want to check the replication status of all the GPOs.

    2. For a single GPO   In the GPMC console tree, navigate to the Group Policy Objects container. Expand the Group Policy Objects container and click the GPO for which you want to check the replication status.

  2. Click the Status tab in the results pane.

  3. Click the Detect Now button to gather infrastructure status from all of the domain controllers in this domain."


    When I click Detect now, making sure I am choosing the right DC (but I've tried this with 3 DCs) I get this error:

no infrastructure status information exists for this domain


This works for an individual policy.

The domain has 4 sites, 1 main, 1 DR and 2 with only contain RODC.

The domain controllers are 2016 and 2019.

Question: does anybody know how to fix this? (are there pre-requisites that I'm missing?)
Alternative question: does anybody know how to check for domain replication status with MS tools? (cmd, powershell, graphical interface)

Thanks!

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Hello caducitate,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community forum.

In my lab, I have only one DC, I can check GPO for an entire domain. And when I check every GPO as you mentioned, some of the GPOs display "no infrastructure status information exists for this domain".

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I will see "Infrastructure status was last gathered" after I click "Detect now" button.


You have 4 DCs in the domain, please check the AD replication status first, and if AD replication status is OK, then we can try to check GPO replication above later.

Please run commands on PDC to check AD replication status.

repadmin /showrepl >C:\rep1.txt
repadmin /replsum >C:\rep2.txt

repadmin /showrepl * /csv >c:\repsum.csv
 


I hope the information above is helpful.

If you have any question or concern, please feel free to let us know.

Best Regards,
Daisy Zhou

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Hi Daisy,
thanks for your quick reply.

Sorry, I haven't been very precise.

The issue I am talking about is this:

I ran the replication commands you suggested, I don't have any replication issues, no failures registered.

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Hello caducitate,

Thank you for your reply.


You can try click the Detect Now button to gather infrastructure status from all of the domain controllers in this domain as it mentioned.

On DC in main site, click the Detect Now button or change base domain controller to see if the error still occurs.

On DC in DR site, click the Detect Now button or change base domain controller to see if the error still occurs.

On DC in RODC1 site, click the Detect Now button or change base domain controller to see if the error still occurs.

On DC in RODC2 site, click the Detect Now button or change base domain controller to see if the error still occurs.


Meanwhile, please check the SYSVOL replication status on Domain Controllers. Steps as below:
For example:
Create a file named F1 under path \\domain.com\SYSVOL\domain.com\policies on DC (assume it is DC1) in main site.
Create a file named F2 under path \\domain.com\SYSVOL\domain.com\policies on DC ((assume it is DC2) in DR site.
Check if F1 is replicated to DC2 and two RODCs and if F2 is replicated to DC1 and two RODCs.


Best Regards,
Daisy Zhou

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