MMR Tombstone Question

hi,
my udnerstanding is that when objects are deleted (whether it be a user obejct or an object representing a replciatio nagreement, etc etc) a tombstone is created.. this tombstone is used for a variety of purposes (conflict resolutionin mmr etc)..
please correct me if wrong!
is it ok to manually delete tombstones from an mmr setup? (i.e. delete them from both masters)?
in a large directory with potentially lot's of delete's are they're any guidelins as to changing the purge setting on the replicas?
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thanks

hi,
thanks for your response, i was wondering if you had any advice regarding hwo the pruge value shoudl be set? is there some sort of forumla based o nthe number of expected deletions etc.. or at what point having too many tombstoens can become a performance problem?
thanks

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In an mmr arrangement..
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This is not possible with Directory Server 5.x. The server always returns a referral to the clients.
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What are the views/fields that we can't change by Mass maintenance of MMR(material master record)?

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Conditions in Purchase Order - No scroll bar/Sales Tax value not in mmr

Hello,
I am stuck in a weird problem where I have created a Condition Calculation Schema, assigned it to Schema group and assigned that schema to vendor, but when i open my condition in the PO, it does not give me scroll bar i.e. I have calculation Schema with around 10+ conditions, but when I try to put all the conditions in PO at one time, the scroll bar doesnot come up and without it, I cannot view all my conditions in the PO. Its saving the conditions though as seen in report, but cannot display it in PO without the scroll bar. Any ideas?
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Q Another assignment is that sales tax value and % should not increase the mmr value at time of GR.
Ans:
Dear Afshad,
Reference to your question, you need to do few settings in your Condition Type and Pricing Schema, if you need Sales Tax value & % not to include in your Material value.
1 - In SPRO, Check that in your condition type, Control data 2 tab, Accruals check box should not be selected.
2 - In your Calculation Schema, against your condition types for Sales Tax % and Sales Tax Value, select the check box for Manual & Statistics.
3 - Also in your Calculation Schema, you should not select any account key in AccKey (Account Key) and in Accruals colomns.
If any one of these setting is not defined, the valuation price for your material will be increased due to the fact that your settings for Condition type and Calculation Schema is allowing the same to hit the value of your material directly.
Hope it works for you.
Regards
Jibran

Backup DC past tombstone and need help replacing it with another DC with the same name and IP

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We have a single domain in a forest with 2 DCs with AD integrated DNS configured. The primary DC with all the FSMO roles is a VM (Server 2008 R2) and the backup DC is a physical server (Server 2008 non-R2).
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MM interview questions

Hi Experts,
Can you give answers for the following questions. Points will be awarded. Need it urgently.
General/Organizational Elements/Master Data
1. What is meant by a client in the SAP R/3 System?
A: Commercial and organizational unit with in R/3, with its own data, master records and set of tables. Cliet forms a Corporate group.
2. What is the mySAP.com Marketplace and the Workplace?
A: Where you can get the SAP Products, Services, Pre Configured systems and Industry specific Configurable documents.
3. Name the essential organizational elements in Materials Management and explain how they are used.
A: Company code, Plant, Storage location, Purchase organization and Purchase groups.
Company codePlantsStorage locations.
Purchase GrpPurchase OrgCompany codes and plants.
4. Explain the concept of views in the material master record.
A: Maintains each department's data under an organizational level.
5. What do you have to take into account with regard to the function or transaction to be chosen if you want to create a view (that is, data for a particular user department) in the material master for different organizational units (for example, for different plants)?
A: Create Material master MM01
6. What importance does the purchasing organization have for the material master?
7. How do you control the use of selected valuation classes per material type?
A: In IMG configuration maintain Account category references for each material type and maintain possible valuation classes under this ACR.
8. With which master data is the account group used?
A: Vendor Master Data
9. What does an account group determine?
10. At what level is general data for vendors (such as the address) managed? What user department is responsible?
11. What is meant by a one-time vendor (sundries account)?
12. What views have to be maintained in the vendor master to be able to create purchase orders?
13. What determines whether a material can be posted to stock?
Purchasing / Optimization / Customzing ...
1.     Explain the basic structure of purchasing documents! What is the special feature of purchase requisitions?
A: Header ,Item, Item detail.
2.     Which control parameters are located at the item level of purchasing documents?
A: Material data, Qty/Weights,Delivery schedule, Acceptance period, Delivery invoice, Conditions, Texts, Delivery Address, confirmations, confirmation control.
3.     What does the account assignment category U (unknown) stand for? When can you use this account assignment category?
4.     How can you assign different delivery dates to a purchase order item?
A: In item details, there is a tab called Delivery schedule. In that you fill in the required dates.
5.     Why may this be advisable?
A: To inform the vendor, when the material is required. May have an extended answer.
6.     What must you take into account or determine in the case of multiple account assignment?
7.     Explain the procurement process using outline purchase agreements. What are the basic differences between a contract and a scheduling agreement?
8.     What is the purpose of the collective number for RFQs?
A: To monitor all the RFQs that belongs to a single requirement.
9.     With which functionality can you compare quotations submitted by different vendors?
A: Quotation comparision in ME49.
10.     At which organizational levels is info record data kept?
A: Plant.
11.     What determines whether you can change the "GR", "GR non-valuated", and "IR" indicators in the purchase order?
12.     At which level is the purchase order history kept?
13.     In which of the following cases can you define scales for the condition type?
Purchase order
Contract
Info record
Vendor
Quotation
Scheduling agreement
14.     Which master data must you maintain for a quota arrangement?
A: In MMR Quota arrangement usage indicator in MRP2 View, which contains quota percentaages.
15.     At which levels can you define a source list requirement?
A: Plant Level.
16.     Specify the priorities in the source determination process!
A: Contracts, Scheduling Agreements, Consignments, Stock transfer and transfer posting. In which ways can a source be assigned to a purchase requisition?
A: There is a Assign source of supply in item details screen.
18.     What is the main purpose of the "Assign requisitions" function?
19.     What are the preconditions for automatically generated delivery schedule lines?
A: Source list should be maintainted with MRP indicator material relevant for MRP and Scheduling line generated automatically - 2.
20.     How do you determine that the "source assignment" flag is set on the initial screen when a purchase requisition is created?
21.     Explain the advantages of external services procurement (item category "D") in comparison with procuring services by means of a standard purchase order with account assignment (text or material type DIEN)!
22.     How do you make it possible to accept external services that are not covered by a purchase order or exceed the scope of services covered by a purchase order?
23.     What does the release strategy determine?
A: Conditions required for the approval of the documents.
24.     At which level are purchase requisitions released? What does this depend on?
A: Only at item level, determined by Release without classification, at header level determined by release with classification.
Inventory Management (incl. Special Procurement) / Physical Inventory
1.     What is the difference between blocked stock and GR blocked stock?
A: Blocked stock is the stock moved to un-used stock for a specific reason.Where as GR blocked stock is the stock received directly against a purchase doc is blcoked for quality reasons or requirements.
2.     According to the bill of material, a production order requires 10 pieces of a material. But only 8 pieces are requested for the issue date and the remaining 2 pieces are no longer needed, because they are already available from previous orders. What are the implications of this? What needs to be done?
3.     In which cases are reservations appropriate for goods receipts?
4.     What options do you have to carry out goods movements between different plants within your group?
A: TP from Plant to Plant ( one step and two step), TP from Plant to Plant (Crosss company), STO.
5.     You have posted the wrong quantity at GR. How do you rectify this?
A: Do a reversal proecess, or Cancel the material document, i think later is not possible.
6.     Can you use different movement types in one material document?
A: Yes in case of Sub-contracting process its possible about other cases dont know.
7.     How are goods movements documented in MM?
A: In material documents.
8.     How are goods issues that are posted by sales and distribution (SD) documented?
A: I think Material Document.
9.     What are the effects of a goods receipt?
A: Update in PO history, Material Doc, FI accounting document, Inventory update, G/L accounts posting, GR/IR slip, PO item set to zero if delivey completed indicator is set. Statistical data update in inventory control, updatation of vendor evaluation data in purchasing, Inspection lots created in QM.
10.     When is the u201Cdelivery completedu201D indicator automatically set at GR?
A: When Goods received qty equals the ordered qty.
11.     For which levels do you define that negative stocks are allowed?
A: I Think at Storage location level.
12.     Briefly explain the process of consignment!
A: Consignment info record, Create PO with item category K, Do GR 101, TP 411. MRKO for consignment settlement.
Customizing incl. Message Determination
1.     What does the item category determine?
2.     Can you define further item categories?
3.     What does the document type determine with regard to purchasing documents?
4.     Which parameter is used to differentiate between the output (as messages) of a newly created or changed purchase order and a reminder or urging letter (expediter) relating to the PO?
5.     How can you ensure that the choice of the printer to be used for printing out purchasing documents depends on the purchasing group?
Materials Planning
1.     On what information are the various consumption-based planning procedures based? Name the consumption-based planning procedures.
2.     Name the 3 planning run types
3.     What information is recorded in the planning file?
4.     What determines whether a material is to be included in the total planning run?
5.     Which times does the system take into account when scheduling for external procurement and where are they entered?
6.     How many receipt elements are created and which quantities are procured if a requirement of 160 pieces exists, 10 pieces are available and the following conditions exist:
a) lot-for-lot order quantity:
b) fixed lot size 100:
c) lot-for-lot order quantity with rounding value 100:
d) lot-for-lot order quantity with minimum lot size 50:
e) lot-for-lot order quantity with minimum lot size 200:
f) lot-for-lot order quantity with maximum lot size 100:
g) replenishment up to maximum stock level 500:
Account Determination/Valuation
1.     On which levels can you valuate materials?
2.     What is the function of the period closing program?
3.     You want to carry out a posting for a goods movement that was carried out 3 months ago, but has not yet been posted. Which posting date do you use?
4.     What is the purpose of the account grouping code?
5.     Can you assign more than one valuation class to a single material master record?
6.     What is a valuation class? How is it used?
7.     What is the purpose of the (general) account grouping code?
8.     Under which circumstances is a posting made to a difference account when a goods receipt for a purchase order is posted to stock?
9.     Are accounting documents usually created for the following postings?
Transfer posting from material to material
Material type ROH, GR for PO posted to stock
Material type UNBW, GR for PO to stock
Transfer posting from plant to plant in one step
Transfer posting from plant to plant in two steps: removal from stock
Transfer posting from plant to plant in two steps: putaway
GR for PO with account assignment, GR not valuated
GR for PO with account assignment, GR valuated
GI of a raw material (ROH)
GI of an non-valuated material (UNBW)
Invoice Verification (incl. Customizing)
1.     In which cases would the stock or consumption account be credited with the cash discount amount?
2.     When does a price variance not lead to an invoice being blocked?
3.     If, in an invoice, an item for $ 100 is blocked, and 2 further items for a total of $ 200 are not blocked, how much is the vendor paid in the next payment run (without tax)?
4.     Why is the message issued by the system about a payment block not an error message?
5.     What is a stochastic block?
6.     An invoice is entered before the goods receipt is posted and is blocked due to quantity variance. The goods receipt is then entered for the quantity invoiced, invalidating the blocking reason. How does the system react?
7.     Which options do you have for releasing an invoice manually?
8.     Can invoices be blocked manually?
9.     How do you enter a credit memo that results in the quantity invoiced being changed?
10.     Which system-side requirements must be fulfilled before you can use evaluated receipt settlement (ERS)?
11.     When do price and quantity variances occur during the ERS run?

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LDAP design question for multiple sites

LDAP design question for multiple sites
I'm planning to implement the Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2 2005Q1 for replacing the NIS.
Currently we have 3 sites with different NIS domains.
Since the NFS over the WAN connection is very unreliable, I would like to implement as follows:
1. 3 LDAP servers + replica for each sites.
2. Single username and password for every end user cross those 3 sites.
3. Different auto_master, auto_home and auto_local maps for three sites. So when user login to different site, the password is the same but the home directory is different (local).
So the questions are
1. Should I need to have 3 domains for LDAP?
2. If yes for question 1, then how can I keep the username password sync for three domains? If no for question 1, then what is the DIT (Directory Infrastructure Tree) or directory structure I should use?
3. How to make auto map work on LDAP as well as mount local home directory?
I really appreciate that some LDAP experta can light me up on this project.

Thanks for your information.
My current environment has 3 sites with 3 different NIS domainname: SiteA: A.com, SiteB:B.A.com, SiteC:C.A.com (A.com is our company domainname).
So everytime I add a new user account and I need to create on three NIS domains separately. Also, the password is out of sync if user change the password on one site.
I would like to migrate NIS to LDAP.
I want to have single username and password for each user on 3 sites. However, the home directory is on local NFS filer.
Say for userA, his home directory is /user/userA in passwd file/map. On location X, his home directory will mount FilerX:/vol/user/userA,
On location Y, userA's home directory will mount FilerY:/vol/user/userA.
So the mount drive is determined by auto_user map in NIS.
In other words, there will be 3 different auto_user maps in 3 different LDAP servers.
So userA login hostX in location X will mount home directory on local FilerX, and login hostY in location Y will mount home directory on local FilerY.
But the username and password will be the same on three sites.
That'd my goal.
Some LDAP expert suggest me the MMR (Multiple-Master-Replication). But I still no quite sure how to do MMR.
It would be appreciated if some LDAP guru can give me some guideline at start point.
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SD questions - very urgent

kindly send me SD Questions
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thanks

hi
) How you will release change request in SD module? How often you release them?
2) How to create tasks. What are the maximum number of tasks you were created in you are previous project?
3) What is the difference between task and change request?
4) Is it possible to release change request, without releasing task.
5) Is functional module configuration comes under workbench request or customization request?
6) What is the tool you are using for testing purposes in your project?
7) What is the landscape you are following, which one you prefer to test functional module level changes?
8) Could you explain about sales deals?
9) Product attributes means?
10) What do you mean by drop shipment?
11) Can you explain about Higher-level item category and item usage?
12) What do you mean by condition index, how you configured in you project?
13) What do you mean by sort key(company code data in CMR) ?
14) What is the difference between ERB and ERU account keys?
15) What is the difference between general item category group and item category group ( sales org2 in MMR)?
16) What is the difference between alternative calculation type and alternative condition base value?
17) Is it possible to have different pricing procedure for sales order and invoice?
18) Consumption based planning?
19) Difference between billing and invoice?
20) How to stop PGI?
21) What do you mean by user specific parameters?
22) Explain about common distribution channels and common divisions and combined distribution channel and combined divisions, what is use?
23) How to extend material and customer to other sales areas?
24) Why does account group controls customer?
25) How can you use R/3 project management in implementation?
26) What are the Enhancements you done as a support team member and explain any two?
27) To get pricing in billing what are configuration you done in your project?
28) To extend material one plant to another plant what are the configuration you done in your project?
29) What do you mean by POD(proof of delivery) what is the use of pod? What are the con figuration you done in your project?
30) What is the significance of products under system application and products?
31) Why do you need project IMG?
32) What is the client specific data? Give two examples of client specific data?
33) What is the use of sales area?
34) How we assigned sales organization to delivering plant?
35) In system landscape where the sand box and golden box exists?
36) What are the challenges you faced in your previous implementation project?
37) What are the inter faces do you know?
38) Explain about smart forms?
39) From where system picks VAT registration number?
40) What is condition update? Can you give condition update for product, which is already given condition update?
41) What is the difference between customization and configuration?
42) While I am creating a customer in ship to party account group you have shipping and billing partner function tab pages, client wants to shift all important fields in billing like payment terms, incoterms , and tax classification into shipping tab page. He wants only shipping partner function only, how does you customize?
43) In material determination how you configure the system should propose when product A is not available then only system substitute with product B. If A is available 60% quantity. How do you do in the situation?
44) In which phase you transfer data into SAP R/3?
45) Explain EDI and its usage?
46) Sales order is created 1st November for 200 tooth pastes 100 brushes free of goods(2+1 free goods).At the time of delivery on 15th November you have shortage of brushes by 40. offer closed on 15th November . How do you solve in this scenario?
47) Can you assign one sales organization to multiple company codes? If yes how? If no why?
48) In real time what user name and password we use?
49) In real-time when we start system in first what screen we get and tell me process how to logon sap screen? I faced this question in IBM?
50) Where you worked with ABAPers?
51) How do you calculate net price on MRP based?
52) Have you worked on debugging? Explain any of one of the example?
53) How many user exists have you developed in your current project? Name at least 10 user exists you have developed and used in your current project?
54) Explain about SOP (service operating procedure) and your role in it?
55) Can you do account determination without account keys? And explain how?
56) Explain about minimum value surcharge calculated?
57) What you done business blue print, realization, final preparation, and go live support in your previous project?
58) How many SAP versions you know? And what is difference between them?
59) Without delivery can you do billing?
60) Is it possible to do delivery without shipping point?
61) Quotation has been created for product-D, 10 quantities, sales order is created with reference to the quotation, system copies 10 quantities in sales order. How do you restrict in sales order end user should not change quantities, system should not allow for changes by en user?
62) What are the business processes in your project?
63) How system picks up pricing while doing billing?
64) How SAP support to the client to know the customer requirements?
65) What are Z errors?
66) What are the training documents while giving training session for users?
67) What are the time bound deliveries?
68) What are the GAP analysis you identified in your project?
69) Can you explain about actual GI (gods issue) date and planned GI date? Can actual GI date differ from planned GI date?
70) Which module integration is required in output determination? 71) What are the two user exits you have used in your project?
72) What is the importance of release status and dynamic field check in condition table/condition record?
73) How sales document is structured?
74) What is the use of pricing date in condition type?
75) What is the use of condition type in pricing procedure determination?
76) In sales order how system does picks up plant?
77) What happens if inspection lot is rejected?
78) Can one have multiple packing for delivery?
79) What happens to the material listing/exclusion if the payer is different from the sold to party?
80) Can one create delivery with reference to the project?
81) An order item with different shipping point copied into the sales deliveries?
82) Can one specify user specific dates in delivery documents?
83) How does the rule MALA decide the picking location?
84) Why do I use condition indexes? How do you activate them?
85) How can we process out bound deliveries without shipping point?
86) Stock transfer?
87) What is the use of VPRS, EK01 and Ek02? For material cost we are using VPRS why we need EK01 and EK02?
88) When I am saving customer master (internal number range), system generating number range like 5000211,500216and 500221 instead of giving 500211,500212 and 500213.why system generating like this?
Re: int que

The Active Directory cannot replicate with this server because the time since the last replication with this server has exceeded the tombstone lifetime.

the solution what i got from this from is to Depromote and promote it again to DC, my question when i depromote, will the OU , object will remain as it is or it will be lost. And what precautions do i need to take?
Adding to the above points, my Domain has only 2 DC, should both the DC be demoted and promoted

Under NO curcumstances you demote both of your DCs. You must always have one or 2DCs running, otherwise you will loose your entire AD. Only 1 DC should be demoted. you should wait couple of hours prior to promoting it back to DC role again.
Ideally your primary DC will continue maintaining the OUs, GPOs, and user accounts.
I would suggest brining in a new, 3rd DC intro play, leave it for a day or 2 to replicate everything properly, confirm that its propagating properly with the primary DC, and only then demote and remove the offending DC.
There are actually ways for recovering from tombstone lifetime much painlessly than DC demotion/promotion. Depending on what is your AD running on, Windows 2003 or 2012 R2 servers:
here a few links that might help you understand how it works:
Primary link :http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/11/23/fixing-when-your-domain-traveled-back-in-time-the-great-system-time-rollback-to-the-year-2000.aspx
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/343609-ad-replication-can-t-because-exceeded-tombstone-life
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2020053?wa=wsignin1.0
http://shebangme.blogspot.com/2011/01/active-directory-time-since-last.html

Using the Ntdsutil utility to remove the only (tombstoned) DC along with an orphaned child domain

Hello experts,
before working on a server consolidation project for a new customer the situation was:
Headquarter (I will not mention file and application servers)
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- One physical server running Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition acting as a Domain Controller and Global
Catalog, holding the Five FSMO roles and running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.
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Branch office (connected to the corporate office by using a persistent site-to-site VPN)
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- One physical server running Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition acting as a file server and a Domain Controller
in a child domain. Before we started work on the server consolidation project, this Domain controller at the remote site already was tombstoned.
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After working on the server consolidation project the situation is:
Headquarter
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- We have added a new VM running Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition acting as a Domain Controller.
- We have added a new VM running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition running Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3
and successfully migrated Exchange 2003 to 2007. We are ready to remove Exchange 2003 from the old physical server running Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition.
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Branch office
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- We have added a new VM running Windows Server 2003 R2 and promoted it to be a new Domain Controller in a new
forest.
- We have turned off the tombstoned Domain Controller after migrating the applications and users to the new domain.
We haven't tried to demote it gracefully because it is totally screwed up
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In order to decommission the two remaining physical servers (the one acting as a Domain Controller and Global
Catalog, holding the Five FSMO roles and running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 in the Headquarter and the tombstoned Domain Controller in the Branch office) our plan is to:
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1. Use the Ntdsutil.exe utility to manually remove the tombstoned Domain Controller in the Branch office.
2. After manually removing the tombstoned Domain Controller in the Branch office (step above), use the Ntdsutil.exe utility
to manually remove the orphaned child domain from Active Directory.
3. Transfer the role of the global catalog and all FSMO roles to the new VM we have added in the Headquarter (It is already
acting as a Domain Controller).
4. Remove Exchange 2003 from and gracefully demote the old physical server running in the Headquarter. ==================================================
Does our plan above make sense to you ? Can someone please explain or provide instructions for step 1 & 2 above ?
I would be very grateful if someone could kindly share some thoughts.
Any help/information will be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Massimiliano

To remove an orphaned child domain: http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/230306
To do a metadata cleanup: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816907%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
Your plan is okay. Just make sure that your DCs are in healthy state and AD replication is fine using
dcdiag and repadmin commands before proceeding with demoting. Also, take system state backups before proceeding.
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Hello Ahmed,
thank you for your reply to my question.
I have analyzed the replication status for all domain controllers in the Active Directory forest using the Active
Directory Replication Status Tool (ADREPLSTATUS). All DCs are in healthy state and AD replication is fine.
The only replication errors shown in the Active Directory Replication Status Tool are those involving the tombstoned
Domain Controller in the Branch office, so I think it should be safe to go ahead.
It is my understanding that before removing the orphaned child domain I should remove the tombstoned Domain Controller
in the Branch office. Can I refer to the instructions on the following webpage:
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http://www.petri.com/delete_failed_dcs_from_ad.htm ==================================================
Thank you,
Massimiliano

Need to create MMR in back date

Dear Gurus,
The issue is we went live on 01.07 and now on 6th we realized that some materials, their stocks and their prices were not uploaded. The only thing we can do now is create them as of today. But accounts ppl want to have a trail balance as of 30.06 and in that case these materials and their values will not be visible in it.
So the question is how to create MMR as on 30.06?
Even if the MMR is created on 01.07, system is not accepting stock posting as on 30.06 (maybe since on 30.06 there was no MMR available).
How to proceed?
Thanks in advance.
Sincerely
Venkat - Hyd

Hi,
Check on it:-
MM period closing.
Use MMPI for period initialization, you need to give the parameter ID MMPI_READ_NOTE in the user ID of the concerned user and give the value as current date in the form YYYYMMDD.
In order to be able to have the period closing program running, you must reserve parameter ID MMPI_READ_NOTE with the current date in the user parameters with the current date in form YYYYMMDD (Y = year, M = month, D = day).
Check the following OSS notes for further clarification:- 487381, 369637
this is not advisable as it might create inconsistancies by opening the perevious period,
If you want to open previous period for reversal entry or additional entry
The following are steps for Opening previous period in MM :
1. Go to TCode SU01 (see OSS NOTES 487381)
2. Choose "change" tab with your loging Name
3. Choose "Parameter" tab
give Parameters MMPI_READ_NOTE with date format as YYYYMMDD
(say today 20100706)
4. SAVE.
5. Go to T-code MMPI
6. open the old periods which you want to post into,
Note :
the period opening will be valid for only for the particular day only.
7. Complete the posting you want to reverse or add
8. Go to MMPV to close the periods
pherasath

From Nabil Houlika Germany. Please help me by answering the following questions. The Time Capsule suddenly went dead. What should I do? Is there a way to put it "ON" again??

Yesterday the time capsule light went off. All efforts to put it on again failed. All electric connections are in good order and working perfectly. Please help me.

Hi again,
I called them this morning. Admits my allergies and sneezing I was able to talk to them.
They will replace it with basically no questions asked.
I guess also having a MBP under AppleCare also helped too as the case is registered under that.
They gave me a few options.
The could take my credit card number as insurance and send me a new one and them I send them my dead one back, or I could take it into an Apple Store for a replacement there. The problem is that I have data on there that I want to maintain, so they said take it to the Apple Store or an Apple Service provider and they would handle the transfer.
I don't have an Apple Store in my city, but have a Service Provider that I know that could do the transfer for me, but I kinda want to do it at the Apple Store because maybe then they would give me a new one instead of another w year tombstone.
So I need to weigh my options.
I'll let you know further what happens.
P.S. my serial number was not in the range listed, but that didn't seem to make a difference. I think the key is to be courteous, respectful and friendly.

Do RDS CALs Have a Tombstone Life?

Is a 2008 R2 RDS CAL an actual AD object? This question is penultimate to: do the tombstone policies of AD objects apply to RDS CALs?

Hi,
Permanent RDS Per Device CALs expire between 52 to 89 (exact number is random) days after issuance, temporary RDS Per Device CALs expire in 90 days, and Per User RDS CALs expire after 60 days.
You may open RD Licensing Manager (licmgr.exe) to see what Per Device RDS CALs have been issued, when they expire, etc. For Per User RDS CALs you must first create a Per User usage report, then right-click on this report, save it as csv file,
and then view the csv in Notepad, Excel, etc.
-TP

SRA Redirection Question

Let me start with the scenario:
I have 2 sites A and B. Each site has 1 directory server (DS-A and DS-B). The 2 DS are configured for MMR. Layered on top is an instance of Access Manager at each site (AM-A and AM-B). Also, each site has a Portal Server configured for SRA and a Gateway Server. Each Portal and Gateway instance are also named accordingly, PS-A/PS-B and GW-A/GW-B.
When both server are up everything works as it should, logging in through GW-A or B you are re-directed to a custom site. The problem is when logging in to GW-B, I am re-directed to AM-A for authentication. This causes problem if AM-A is not available.
How can I tell GW-B to redirect to only AM-B? I used example10.xml to configure the the GW. Please let me know if more information is needed.
Thanks,
J

so I upgraded to that version and sure enough the commands are available
thanks
the redirection works excellent !!
I have a question : Is there a way to download crl manually ? I dont want to reconfigure the CRL under the ssl-proxy each time I need to download
a new published CRL .
basically what I am asking is there a way to make the ACE download CRL more frequently and not be dependent on the CA servers publish
Interval ? It seems kind of strange that I have to delete my CRL configuration and paste it back in to "make" the ACE download a new CRL.
secondly,
I have attached a screenshoot from my configuration in order to ask for a clarification .
In the picture you see that I have 3 certificates (besides the default)
one that I downloaded from the CA server and thats its own certificate
second is an identity certificate that the CA signed for a web site (10.2.2.20) (using a CSR with "my-key")
third is another identity cert for 10.2.2.21 (using a CSR with "my-key")
I dont understand why It says "False" under the CA certificate ? the key matches the certificate and evrything works fine.
is it because this is the ACE identity certificate and not an actual CA certificate (self signed or delegated) ?

Find a tombstone in a large forest

I need some guidance in finding a tombstone in a forest that has 90 domain controllers and 79 sites. Each domain controller is receiving three daily EventID 1864 alerts. One for the domain partition, one for the configuration partition and one
for the schema partition. I have checked the replication between all domain controllers using repldiag /CheckForStableReplTopology and it returned No topology errors found.
I created a PS script to go out to the forest and search all DC's for EventID 2042 and it returned nothing. Due to the size of the infrastructure and the fact that they set their tombstone lifetime to 400 days, running any type of query where I can pull
GUID's and check DNS, returns literally thousands of entries in the output. I currently have a support case with Microsoft that has been open for nearly two weeks now but we have not found a resolution that wouldn't take countless man hours. I came into
this situation recently and was told that this tombstone has been out there for around 4 years. The reason this has come up again is because the client is looking to raise the functional level of their forest from 2003 to 2008. I am doing this for a client,
so everything is done remotely, and sometimes very slowly due to the fact that these domain controllers are located all over the world, and sometimes in places that have very bad connectivity.
A few quick questions:
Will they/we be able to raise the functional level of the forest with the tombstone there?
If we can, will this have any impact in the long run, or will it just remain a tombstone until it is found?
If we can't, is there a workaround to get the functional level raised while the tombstone is still there?
Is there any quick way to find either the name, IP address or even the GUID of the device that is causing these EventID's?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I've tried everything I could possibly think of and have been researching and trying different tools for over two weeks now.

If strict replication consistency on domain controller is not enabled, lingering objects can be replicated to domain controller.
AD DS: Strict replication consistency should be enabled on all domain controllers in this forest
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd723692(v=ws.10).aspx
Strict Replication Consistency - Myth versus Reality
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/02/15/strict-replication-consistency-myth-versus-reality.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816938(v=ws.10).aspx
If the server has reached tombstone lifecycle period the best way to deal with is demote/promote the DC.You cannot demote the faulty DC gracefully you need to do forcefull removal.You need to ran dcpromo/force removal and then run matadata cleanup on other
DC(healthy) to remove the instance of faulty DC from AD database and DNS.If faulty DC is fsmo role holder server the you need to seize the FSMO role on other DC.Once done you can promote the Server back as DC.
Sometimes its difficult to remove lingering object either using repadmin /removelingeringobjects or other tool. If lingering objects spreads then its more difficult to tackle them, demoting & promoting the server containg the lingering is best bet.
Complete Step by Step Guideline to Remove an Orphaned Domain controller (including seizing FSMOs, running a metadata cleanup, and more)
http://msmvps.com/blogs/acefekay/archive/2010/10/05/complete-step-by-step-to-remove-an-orphaned-domain-controller.aspxis
To remove lingering object see this:http://blogs.technet.com/b/glennl/archive/2007/07/26/clean-that-active-directory-forest-of-lingering-objects.aspx
Hope helps
Best Regards,
Sandesh Dubey.
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