Most of the time Active Directory replication seems to work pretty well. When the replication process does break down however, troubleshooting the problem can sometimes be surprisingly difficult.

Is there a way to rehost the configuration partition on a Windows 2000 GC? I can do the domain partitions fine, but it yells at me with... Writeability Check() failed with status 8440 (0x20f8): The ...

A lingering object is any Active Directory object that has been deleted but gets reanimated when a domain controller (DC) does not replicate the change during the domain's tombstone lifetime period.

Greetings. Anyone know how to disable replication (that is, replication of AD data from one domain controller to another) under Windows Server 2003? Under Windows 2000 there was a tool included in the ...