You could also turn up additional logging which would give more details as to what the internal error is. I would suggest starting with the following:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Diagnostics 1. Locate the "5 Replication Events" value under the above key. 2. On the Edit menu, click DWORD, type 4, and then click OK. 3. Locate the "9 Internal Processing" value under the same key. 4. On the Edit menu, click DWORD, type 1, and then click OK. After you do this post the full event text for the error and any additional replication or internal processing errors. I would expect to get back an Exception value with parameters and an internal id. These can be used to determine what is causing the problem. To answer your original question the tombstoned object will only be removed once the tombstone lifetime is reached and garbage collection has run. I would not recommend changing the tombstone lifetime to correct this as it is forest wide and can lead to more serious problems than you currently have. We should be able to determine the cause of the internal error and correct it without taking such risky and drastic measures. Thanks, -Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vinnie Cardona Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 9:53 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects What event id are you seeing associate with this error? Vinnie Cardona Systems Administrator Ernest Health, Inc Information Technology Dept 505.798.6472 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WATSON, BEN Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 6:18 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Replication Problems and Tombstoned Objects Our forest is currently experiencing some replication issues. The common error we have been receiving has revolved around a single object. To summarize, how do you permanently delete Active Directory objects? More specifically, how do you remove an object that is already tombstoned? Here is why I need to do this, here is the full error... ------- Replication error: The directory replication agent (DRA) couldn't update object CN=InfowebAccess,OU=InfowebGroups,DC=appsig,DC=com (GUID e9888888-616b-4944-bbe1-c8265cf4cc89) on this system with changes which have been received from source server e928ad23-039d-4dbd-b214-f88b4ae54819._msdcs.appsig.com. An error occurred during the application of the changes to the directory database on this system. The error message is: The replication system encountered an internal error. The directory will try to update the object later on the next replication cycle. Synchronization of this server with the source is effectively blocked until the update problem is corrected. If this condition appears to be related to a resource shortage, please stop and restart this Windows Domain Controller. If this condition is an internal error, a database error, or an object relationship or constraint error, manual intervention will be required to correct the database and allow the update to proceed. It is valuable to note that the problem is caused by the fact that the change on the remote system cannot be applied locally. Manually updating the objects on the local system in not recommended. Instead, on the source system (which has the changes already), try to reverse or back out the change. Then, on the next replication cycle, observe whether the change can now be applied locally. The record data is the status code. ------- After I deleted this object, I continue to get the same error, except it now references the deleted (tombstoned) object as a roadblock. ------- Replication error: The directory replication agent (DRA) couldn't update object CN="InfowebAccess DEL:e9888888-616b-4944-bbe1-c8265cf4cc89",CN=Deleted Objects,DC=appsig,DC=com (GUID e9888888-616b-4944-bbe1-c8265cf4cc89) etc... (same as error above) ------- What would be the proper method to permanently remove a tombstoned object? If I'm following the error messages, then removing the object permanently should (hopefully) resolve the issues. Thanks, ~Ben List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
