I used to use Replmon to manually replicate my active directory (specifically cross site). Now with Windows 2008, or even 2012 (I didn’t test 2012, I assume it works the same) the replmon application is gone.

Now, most of the time Microsoft replaces nice tools with complicated ones. This time, it’s the opposite. repadmin is a very easy to use tool. I use it to schedule/issue an immediate replication of Active Directory.

repadmin /syncall /A /P /e /d

Repadmin is an awesome replacement for Replmon. Dig into the help documents for the more in-depth options it provides.