Hi,
Scenario - 1X2003 forest with 14 domains
I had a user object (Tim) in the lostandfound OU of domain1 and used to be an active user in domain1. A conflict had occurred and hence the LNF object.
It was deleted and no existence of it can be found in domain1 on any of it's DC's.
There are multiple AD sites configured and there is a core site that has a number of DC's from each domain. In this core site there are DC's from domain1 which do not have the LNF object. All the rest in that site have the object.
All DC's in the forest (200) are global catalog servers. If I connect to any other DC's outside of domain1 using ldp.exe (using the GC port) and browse to their replica of domain1 the object "Tim" is found in the lostandfound OU.
I've tried re-hosting the domain1 replica on all servers in the core site using repadmin and pointing the server to one of the DC's in domain1 (also in the core site) to get the correct replica. It does this and the object "Tim" is gone. Then after around 5 mins the object appears back again.
So would I be right in saying that intrasite replication occurs and it gets the object back from one of the other DC's that still has the object???
I don't quite understand why the DC's in domain1 (which hosted the object originally) haven't forced their replica onto the rest of the DC's.
Am I making sense?? I need to get rid of this object completely.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers Ron