Removes lingering objects - an object stored in Active Directory that has seen, deleted and garbage collected by a reference DC but continues to incorrectly exist on direct or transitive replication partners DC's that have not inbound replicated knowledge of the objects deletion within tombstone lifetime number of days. The PC running repadmin may have Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 installed, and must have network connectivity to all domain controllers targeted by the parameter. The reference DC must host a writeable copy of the directory partition targeted for lingering object removal and have network connectivity to all domain controllers targeted by the parameter. DC's targeted by the parameter may host read-only or writeable copies of directory partition targeted for lingering object removal. DC's and Global catalogs targeted by continue to advertise and service ldap request during lingering object removal. The reference DC and domain controllers targeted by the parameter may have Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2 or Windows Server 2008 installed. There are no domain or forest functional requirements for this command. ADVISORY_MODE is a test mode that logs NTDS Replication events 1938, 1946 and 1942 in the targeted domain controllers' directory service event log identifying the lingering objects that should be removed but does not actually remove them. Lingering objects are removed when "repadmin /removelingeringobjects" is run without the /advisory_mode switch. NTDS Replication events 1937, 1945 and 1939 logged on the target DC's directory services event log identify the start, conclusion and set of objects removed from a directory partition. You should conceptually think of DC's in the as the "bad" DC's that you want to test or remove lingering objects from and as the "reference" DC. Microsoft recommends enabling strict replication consistency before removing lingering objects. [SYNTAX] /removelingeringobjects [/ADVISORY_MODE] [EXAMPLES] The following command would check the Europe NC on all DC's in the site HQ for lingering objects using the DC specified by its ObjectGUID 667f7037-8198-4357-8f15-8f709f04b6e2 as reference. The /ADVISORY_MODE will cause events to be written to the Directory Service Event Log for each of the target DC's indicating how many lingering objects were found. /removelingeringobjects site:HQ 667f7037-8198-4357-8f15-8f709f04b6e2 DC=europe,DC=contoso,DC=com /ADVISORY_MODE The following command would check and remove lingering objects from the Europe NC on DC dubdc03 using the DC specified by ObjectGUID 667f7037-8198-4357-8f15-8f709f04b6e2. /removelingeringobjects dubdc03.contoso.com 667f7037-8198-4357-8f15-8f709f04b6e2 DC=europe,DC=contoso,DC=com