So you want to replicate changes in-‘almost’-real-time to your AD sites? While this is not recomended in production enviornments you may have a need to increase replication interval in a lab or development enviornment. You will need some large and reliable connection pipes between your sites to handle the traffic.

In order to do this we have to bascically make replication as fast as an intra-site replication. This modification will initiate replication in under 30 seconds. There is some delay built in just incase you made a typo before it is commited.

The modification is made via ADSI

CN=the site link to be modofied
CN=IP
CN=Inter-Site Transport
CN=Sites
CN=Configuration
DC=domain
DC=tld
Double click the object
Look for the “options” attribute
Set the value to 1