4 4 5 5 Joseph Ryan Ries - 2023 6 6 7 - I am rebuilding the AD Replication Status Tool. 7 + **This project is NOT supported or endorsed by Microsoft. I work for Microsoft, but this is a personal project.** 8 + 9 + I am rebuilding the AD Replication Status Tool. Here are my reasons: 10 + 11 + - The old version of the tool had a time bomb in it - an expiring SSL certificate - that rendered the app 12 + unusable sometime around September 2022. Only through great effort internally were we able to periodically renew 13 + this certificate and republish the app, and the app was architected in such a way that excising the signing 14 + certificate check was more work than just rewriting the whole thing. Furthermore, the app wouldn't even launch 15 + on my Win11 or Server 2022 systems. It would just silently crash and log an event to the Windows event log. I felt 16 + this was a pretty unprofessional state to leave it in. 8 17 9 - ** This project is NOT supported or endorsed by Microsoft. It is a personal project. ** 18 + - The old tool had no active maintainers and no one who was still around was familiar with the app's internals or source code. 19 + 20 + - The old tool was showing its age... I mean, that Office-style ribbon was straight out of the Windows Vista era, was it not? 21 + Plus it contained a bunch of outdated TechNet links. You might argue that WinForms is similarly old-fashioned, but I just so 22 + happen to think WinForms is and always was PEAK Windows UI. 23 + 24 + - Now we can maintain and improve this tool together. The Active Directory community. 25 + 26 + Here are some screenshots of what the tool looks like currently: 27 + 28 +  29 + 30 +  31 + 10 32 11 33 Right now I need beta testers to report bugs, submit feature requests, and send me screenshots of ADREPLSTATUS that I can post here in this README to spruce up the page. 12 34
