I'd recommend opening a case with PSS and/or getting a ROSS onsite (talk to your TAM if you have one; if you don't have a TAM nevermind) and not try to fix this over a listserv. You're walking on thin ice with the activities you're performing.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:53 PM > To: ActiveDir.org > Subject: [ActiveDir] AD Recovery after tombstone hits all DC's > > All, > > As per my email from Monday - "not a line from a song...." I > have managed to persuade the company to do a DC demotion and > promotion. Now I have a question do I need to demote all DC's > bar one then promote them all back up or can i do it on a > site by site basis? > > Will new DC's introduced prior to the demotion excercise be > exposed to the tombstoned data too? > > and finally can you manually delete tombstoned objects - as > it is these objects that are failing replication in the AD. I > have ran the clean up of lingering objects multiple times with no joy. > > I manually deleted the corrupt machine accounts via adsi edit > and the ad then skipped onto the next set of failing attributes. > > I then tried via LDP to delete the tombstoned objects and it > will not let me. > > > Any additional guidance would be appreciated. > > Sent from my blackberry - so sorry for no spell check. > > Regards, > > Mark > 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/ 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/