{"id":34,"date":"2008-07-27T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T17:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:46:37","slug":"how-to-perform-metadata-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"How to Perform Metadata Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are situations when you have to perform Metadata cleanup in Active Directory. Typical examples when you have to perform Metadata cleanup are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delete an extinct Domain Controller metadata<\/li>\n<li>There are no domain controllers currently available in the parent domain when you try to demote the last domain controller in an immediate child domain.<\/li>\n<li>Failed DCPROMO &#8211; Active Directory Installation Wizard can not complete because there is a name resolution, authentication,replication engine, or Active Directory object dependency.<\/li>\n<li>Exceeded Default Tombstone Lifetime (60 days) &#8211; a domain controller has not replicated incoming Active Directory changes in Tombstone Lifetime.<\/li>\n<li>Demote and promote back a Domain Controller<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this <a title=\"How to Perform Metadata Cleanup\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/sbs-metadata-cleanup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Step-by-Step Screencast<\/strong><\/a>, we will demonstrate how to perform metadata cleanup. We will walk you trough the necessary changes in Active Directory, DNS server configuration and Sites-and Services Snap-in.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How to Perform Metadata Cleanup\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/sbs-metadata-cleanup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"How to Perform Metadata Cleanup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog-pics\/Metadata-Cleanup.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned on <strong><a title=\"NetoMeter - Screencasts and Step-by-Step Video Tutorials\" href=\"..\/..\/blog\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NetoMeter<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; subscribe to<a title=\"NetoMeter - Screencasts and Step-by-Step Video Tutorials\" href=\"..\/..\/blog\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>NetoMeter RSS<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are situations when you have to perform Metadata cleanup in Active Directory. Typical examples when you have to perform Metadata cleanup are:<\/p>\n<p>    * Delete an extinct Domain Controller metadata<br \/>\n    * There are no domain controllers currently available in the parent domain when you try to demote the last<br \/>\n      domain controller in an immediate child domain.<br \/>\n    * Failed DCPROMO &#8211; Active Directory Installation Wizard can not complete because there is a name resolution, authentication,replication engine, or Active Directory object dependency.<br \/>\n    * Exceeded Default Tombstone Lifetime (60 days) &#8211; a domain controller has not replicated incoming Active Directory changes in Tombstone Lifetime.<br \/>\n    * Demote and promote back a Domain Controller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[81,77,74,78,76,40,73,75,47,80,69,68,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}