Active Directory Connector Not Run For 4 Months   

Hi

I am investigating an issue for a customer who has not run a connection 
agreement for around 3 to 4 months. The agreement is in lace but the service 
account that is being used had it's password changed. I am unsure of the 
consequences of allowing this to run after it has been idle and out of date 
for so long.

Will it just synch up everything or will it try and commit changes that 
happened the a long time ago and overwrite newer data.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

D

date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:34:02 -0800   author:   Darrel

Re: Active Directory Connector Not Run For 4 Months   

You will need to force a "Full Update" on all of your ADC connection 
agreements. "Tombstones" in AD (deleted items) typically expire within 30 
days so a normal update may not remove some items.

A full update will make sure there is a 1:1 mapping of all items in both 
directories. This may result in some deleted items reappearing in the source 
directory. ADC cannot determine if the discrepancy is because the item was 
never synchronized (new) or if it was deleted. The safe course of action for 
ADC is to recreate the item.

You will probably have to find these items and delete them again.

Modified items will reflect the settings on the most current instance, it is 
possible that some changes will be lost depending on your administration 
patterns but this situation is very rare.

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"Darrel"  wrote in message 
news:85117B29-BBF5-4198-87C8-4B5D795C1D18@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> I am investigating an issue for a customer who has not run a connection
> agreement for around 3 to 4 months. The agreement is in lace but the 
> service
> account that is being used had it's password changed. I am unsure of the
> consequences of allowing this to run after it has been idle and out of 
> date
> for so long.
>
> Will it just synch up everything or will it try and commit changes that
> happened the a long time ago and overwrite newer data.
>
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> D

date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:59:02 -0800   author:   Matt Kuzior [MSFT]