These are DSA invocation IDs (which are maintained for the directory's lifetime) within the up-to-dateness vector table, the stale (irresolvable) entries are normal (assuming they truly represent demoted or forcibly removed DCs) and are typically of no concern. The "retired" notation refers to DCs whose invocation ID has changed due to a restore operation or the removal and
-- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SCOTT KLASSEN Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] repadmin info oddity I try to keep up on new or updated MS KB articles and often check to see how they correlate with my environment. I noticed that 875495, dealing with USN rollbacks, was updated earlier this month. As I've experienced two AD issues, both of which needed PSS involvement (one dealing with sysvol inconsistency and the other which wound up being the RID master going on temporary strike) I figured that I'd do a quick check as described in the article. On the good side, the USN's are consistent between controllers. On the disconcerting side, I got a little more information than I was expecting. Besides my DC's, I also got USN listings for several GUIDs. I assume these are leftovers from DC demotions and only remain in the form of historical data. Do I need to worry about these (especially the DC1 (retired) listing) and is there a way I can resolve the GUIDs to names, find where this info is hiding, and clear them out? Thanks, Scott Klassen >repadmin /showutdvec dc1 dc=domain,dc=com Caching GUIDs. .. Default-First-Site-Name\DC2 @ USN 455091 @ Time 2006-02-20 20:08:20 2c92760e-e8fc-4418-947e-3b1016ab8514 @ USN 1012381 @ Time 2005-08-04 00:02:34 6e129965-56c3-469e-b70a-f1fdfb8bb2cc @ USN 969931 @ Time 2004-07-24 11:53:16 Default-First-Site-Name\DC1 @ USN 1717571 @ Time 2006-02-20 20:10:50 Default-First-Site-Name\DC1 (retired) @ USN 1298674 @ Time 2005-08-05 06:36:16 e2199f22-f1dd-4d1c-90a6-0e8bb874f355 @ USN 744173 @ Time 2004-12-28 20:52:04 ff0d7d50-214f-4bc1-96b6-55ac6ef317f0 @ USN 852323 @ Time 2005-06-08 14:29:20 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/
