Re: How long can a Win2k3 child domain survive if it is disconnected from its parent domain?

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Your DCs need to be able to replicate within their tombstone lifetime, which
is the amount of time that a deleted object remains in a "tombstoned" state
before it is removed from AD entirely. If you bring a DC back online that
hasn't replicated in longer than the tombstone lifetime, you will encounter
replication inconsistencies where one DC will have records of objects that
do not exist on other DCs.

The default tombstone lifetime is 60 days in Windows 2000 and 2003, or 180
days if you've built your AD from scratch on a 2003 SP1 box.

See this link for more information on lingering objects:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/4a1f420d-25d6-417c-9d8b-6e22f472ef3c1033.mspx.

HTH


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"Rubin Farr" <rfarr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi All,

Want to create some child domains in our int'l offices over a cisco based
site to site vpn. Connectivity thus far has been excellent, but am
wondering if we were to for some reason lose connectivity or the vpn link,
how long these child domains could survive for without connectivity to the
parent domains and what would be the side effects of losing connectivity?

Thanks much!




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