The Lingering Object Liquidator (LOL)

Posted On December 14, 2018

There is a tool that helps you identify Lingering Objects in an Active Directory environment. It is the Lingering Object Liquidator, or LOL for short. A description from the download site:

Lingering Object Liquidator automates the discovery and removal of lingering objects from an Active Directory Domain Services forest. The tool uses the DRSReplicaVerifyObjects method used by repadmin /removelingeringobjects and repldiag combined with the removeLingeringObject rootDSE primitive used by LDP.EXE.

Lingering Object Liquidator features include:
• Discovery and removal of lingering objects in a single user interface
• Leverages the DRSReplicaVerifyObjects method in Advisory Mode
• Can target all DCs and all Partitions in a forest
• Displays all lingering objects in a single window
• Export the list of lingering objects to a CSV for offline analysis (or modification for import)
• Supports import and removal of objects from CSV import (leverage for objects not discoverable using DRSReplicaVerifyObjects)

LOL download: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56051

For additional detailed information and screen shots, visit: Remove Lingering Objects that cause AD Replication error 8606 and friends and Introducing Lingering Object Liquidator v2 blog pages.

Mike