Hi,
I'm looking at a windows domain with 3 sites and a DC in each site. A networking issue had prevented replication occurring for some time between the sites. This was discovered after some user account issues. All of the sites are now properly routable and replication is now occuring between 2 of the DCs BUT one of the DCs is blocking replication form one of the others as the date of the last successful replication is longer than the tombstone lifetime and mentions lingering objects.
There are plenty of guides out there on finding and removing lingering objects but the problem is I cant seem to find any.
I have no 1988 Directory Service log errors on any of the DCs so I cant establish what the lingering objects are (if there are any) and I also have tried repadmin /removelingeringobjects /Advisory_mode (with the right arguments of course) but the resulting events in the DS log say that 0 objects were examined and removed.
Am at a loss as to what to do next? How can i be 100% there are no lingering objects and is there any way to re-enable replication? Or is it a case of removing the offending DC and promoting another?
Thanks
Patrick