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Windows Sync provides some control over which entries are synchronized. This
is intended to allow administrators to determine that only a subset of all the
entries should be subject to synchronization and to give sufficient flexibility to
support different deployment scenarios. Therefore, certain rules are applied to
determine first if a particular entry should be synchronized and second if a given
new entry should be created in the peer server.
Specifically, only entries with user or group object classes are synchronized from
Windows to Directory Server. In addition, two flags with agreement scope allow
the creation of new entries for newly found entries in the Windows server to be
enabled or disabled. One flag controls new entry creation for users while the other
controls new entry creation for groups. Similarly, only entries with the necessary
object classes and attribute values in the Directory Server will be synchronized.
The Directory Server peer maintains a
replication
changelog,
a database that records
the modifications that have occurred. The changelog is used by Windows Sync to
generate outbound changes made to the Windows server. Therefore, a changelog
and the associated replica object must be configured in a Directory Server before it
may run Windows Sync.
During normal operation, all the updates made to entries in the Directory Server
that need to be sent to the Windows server are generated via the changelog.
However, when the server is initially configured or after major changes to its
content, it is necessary to initiate a
resynchronization process
. For resynchronization,
the entire contents of synchronized subtree in the Directory Server is examined
and, if necessary, sent to the Windows server. This is done without using the
changelog.
Inbound changes, that is changes to entries in the Windows server, are found by
using Active Directory’s
Dirsync
search feature. Because there is no changelog to
use, it is necessary to issue the Dirsync search periodically. The default interval is
five minutes. The Dirsync search ensures that only those entries that have
changed since the previous search are retrieved.
In the case of a server or where there have been major changes to its content, a
Dirsync search that returns all entries (and not just recently changed entries) can
be performed. This full synchronization is done whenever the administrator
initiates resynchronization, as mentioned before. In some situations, waiting for
the next scheduled Dirsync may cause data integrity problem. During this time,
recent changes made on the Windows server will not be brought over to the
Directory Server. In this case, the administrator can manually initiate an
immediate Dirsync search (described in “Manually Initiating Synchronization,”
on page 565).
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