Qasim Zaidi has an old but really good blog entry on enabling change notification for Active Directory site links. For a long time now I’ve encouraged my customers (those with decent bandwidth between sites) to enable change notifications on site links rather than wait the 15 minutes (minimum) for replication between sites.
Qasim’s blog references a Powershell one-liner to enable change notification for all site links. For some reason it didn’t work for me, so I wrote my own. Here it is for those that might be interested.
### Enable change notification on all site links
$nc = (Get-ADRootDSE).configurationnamingcontext
$sb = "CN=IP,CN=Inter-Site Transports,CN=Sites," + $nc
$fl = "(objectclass=sitelink)"
Get-adobject -LDAPFilter $fl -SearchBase $sb -properties options `
| set-adobject –replace @{options=$($_.options –bor 1)}