How to find the domain controller that contains the lingering object

If we enable Strict Replication Consistency

Lingering objects are not present on domain controllers that log Event ID 1988. The source domain controller contains the lingering object

Also Read: How to check tombstone lifetime value in your Forest

If we doesn’t enable Strict Replication Consistency

Lingering objects are not present on domain controllers that log Event ID 1388. Domain controller that doesn’t log Event ID 1388 and that domain controller contain the lingering object

You have a 100 Domain controllers which doesn’t enable Strict Replication Consistency, then you will get the Event ID 1388 on all the 99 Domain controllers except the one that contain the lingering object

Need to Remove Lingering Objects from the affected domain controller or decommission the domain controller

Also Read: Removing Lingering Objects

You can use Event Comb tool (Eventcombmt.exe) is a multi-threaded tool that can be used to gather specific events from the Event Viewer logs of different computers at the same time.

You can download these tools from the following location:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&DisplayLang=en

Also Read: Understand more about lingering objects

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