Auth restore is a perfectly normal way to end up with phantoms, w/o replication problems having been present.
Delete parent X (including children, and grandchildren). Auth Restore children. Children and grandchildren will be in Lost+Found ... Cheers, -BrettSh On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Tom Kern wrote: > Some OU's are acutally named "old-ou" or "deleted-ou", so they knew > they were getting rid of them. I jusy wondered why they would end you > there. > The ou's are nested at least3 deep. > there are also some stray parent-less user and computer accounts. > > I guess it's just a result of serious on going replication issues or > a movetree gone bad? > > Unfortunately the persons responsible are long gone for not the best > of reasons... > > > thanks > > On 8/16/05, Robert Williams (RRE) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's really hard to tell based on that but a few guesses are: > > > > Someone deleted an OU, then fixed a replication problem after tombstone > > lifetime has passed...this OU had many child OU's which might be the > > ones you see...maybe the attribute for parent is a back-link or > > something like that where it will be blank if the object it references > > doesn't exist (that is a complete guess...I don't know that this works > > that way...it was used as an example). > > > > All other explanations are variations of tombstone lifetime, replication > > problems, etc... > > > > Can you give us more detail about these objects? Whether you should be > > concerned may depend solely on whether the person you are inherited the > > forest from is concerned :-0 > > > > It's hard to say right now... > > > > Rob > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern > > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 2:27 PM > > To: activedirectory > > Subject: [ActiveDir] lost and found > > > > I'm inheriting this forest(which we are migrating away from) which has > > a ton of objects in the lost and found container in the domain > > NC(users,OU's with about 2000 objects in them,etc). > > Know of them have the lastKnownParent attrib set. > > > > Is this something to be concerned with? > > Is there a reason there would be so many objects in here? > > > > Thanks > > 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/ > > > 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/
