AD containers with [] CNF listed in them

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Brenda

On my Windows 2000 server (PDC) in the Active Directory
Users and Computers, I am looking in the System folder.
I have three folders called "DomainUpdates". Two of the
folders are followed with []CNF:6843772b-(more numbers).
I also have a couple folders listed like this under the
MicrosoftDNS folder. Two like folders for ipaddress.in-
addr.arpa. One is followed by []CNF:(numbers).
The information in the folders that have []CNF does not
appear to be complete. Are these folders garbage? Can
they safely be deleted? Will I have future DNS/AD
problems?
Thanks.
 
Brenda,

This problem indicates duplicate entries. When AD encounters a duplicate
entry, for example if the same user is created on two different DC's a the
same time. Then the last one created will be given the name with the CNF
entry.

By the way, this entry shows the CNF and a couple of controlo characters and
the entries SID (that is the numbers at the end)

Hope that helps.

Craig Mercer (MCT)
 
circa Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:40:55 +1100, in
microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory, "Craig Mercer \(MCT\)"
By the way, this entry shows the CNF and a couple of controlo characters and
the entries SID (that is the numbers at the end)
Click to expand...
IIRC, it's the object's GUID, not SID.

Laura
 
So I can safely delete the []CNF listings? Some of them
don't have any information listed and one of them has
incomplete data.
 
circa Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:10:10 -0800, in
microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory, brenda
([email protected]) said,
So I can safely delete the []CNF listings? Some of them
don't have any information listed and one of them has
incomplete data.
Click to expand...
As long as you have a correctly populated object and you don't need
the GUIDed object (meaning that you make sure that you delete the
object you don't want and keep the object that you do want), yes, you
can delete them safely.

Laura
 
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