How to monitor DFSR backlog more efficiently than dfsrdiag

There is another way to get at the information, and that's through WMI. An enterprising soul has put together a PowerShell script that gathers this information:

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/dac62790-219d-4325-a57b-e79c2aa6b58e

No indication of whether or not is faster than dfsrdiag, but I suspect it just might be.

The WMI root is root\MicrosoftDFS and from there you can do the queries via Get-WmiObject