You need to set the LDAP control flags in LDP to view deleted objects. (It's what the -showdel switch is doing for you in adfind.) It's under Options somewhere, look for it and you'll see it.
- Laura On 1/10/06, Tom Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. > > That worked. > > Now my question is, why didn't LDP show that? > > is it because i'm running the win2k3 verison against a win2k forest? > what am i doing wrong with ldp? > > Thanks again > > > On 1/10/06, Coleman, Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Try adfind with the -showdel flag > > > > ________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern > > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:11 AM > > To: activedirectory > > Subject: [ActiveDir] Strange deleted object issue > > > > > > > > > > I have this weird issue- > > > > A user object is missing from my win2k native mode domain. > > I know because this user has complained that he can't log in and i can't > find the object anywhere in AD. > > > > I've checked the deleted objects container in AD with ldp and he is not in > there as well. > > He's not in the Lost and Found container either. > > > > His exchange mailbox is oprhaned in ESM. > > > > Sometime last nite this user was deleted but i have no way of finding him. > we don't have auditing turned on for that but i figured if an object was > deleted it would definetely be in the deleted objects container. > > is there anyway to bypass that? > > where else can i look? > > > > Any help would be great because this is just plain bizzare. > > > > Thanks > > > > -- ----------------------- Laura E. Hunter Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking Author: _Active Directory Consultant's Field Guide_ (http://tinyurl.com/7f8ll) List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/