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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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AD recycle bin

When an object is deleted from AD, it is not permanently deleted. As soon as an object is deleted, the system will set the isDeleted attribute value to True and move the object to CN=Deleted Objects:

Figure 7.29: Deleted AD object

Then, the deleted object will stay there until the system reaches the tombstone lifetime value. By default, this is 180 days, and it can be changed if required. As soon as the object passes the tombstone lifetime value, it can be permanently deleted.

An essential function of an AD database is online defragmentation. This process uses the garbage collector service to remove deleted objects from the AD database and release space back to the database. This service runs every 12 hours. Once the deleted object exceeds the tombstone lifetime value, the object will be permanently removed in the next garbage collector service cycle. The problem with this is that during the tombstone process, most of the object values are stripped...

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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