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Why deleted Active Directory objects sometimes Reappear?

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Question added by Mohammed Hayat Ahmed , Team Lead-IT DataCenter Operations , Confidential
Date Posted: 2013/12/15
Syed Kalif
by Syed Kalif , Infra Cloud Consultant-Architect , Visionet Systems

ne common cause of resurrected objects is offline domain controllers. If a domain controller (DC) is offline for more than60 days, it will have a copy of the deleted object, which no other DC has. Since no other DC will have a record of the deleted object, it will be re-distributed across the domain. This problem can also occur if a DC is restored from a backup that is more than60 days old. The best way to prevent this is to make daily or weekly AD backups and never return a DC to the network before it has been updated.

Tariq Ali
by Tariq Ali , Deputy Manager IT , Kohat Cement Company Limited
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