Microsoft KB Archive/264911

= LDAP Dynamic Directory Data May Not Be Replicated =

Article ID: 264911

Article Last Modified on 10/21/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q264911



SYMPTOMS
When Site Server version 3.0 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Dynamic Directory is configured to replicate among multiple LDAP servers, if you stop the Site Server LDAP service on a server, dynamic objects that were recently created or modified on that server may not be replicated (and may therefore be lost).



CAUSE
When dynamic data replication is configured among multiple servers, the replication of created or modified objects in the Dynamic Directory is placed in a queue. When the LDAP service is stopped, the outstanding replication requests in the queue are not completed, and any data that has not yet been replicated is lost.



WORKAROUND
Before you shut down an LDAP service:
 * 1) Stop making modifications to the Dynamic Directory on the server to be stopped.
 * 2) Wait until the Performance Monitor counter Site Server LDAP Service : Replication Queue Size for the server is 0.
 * 3) Shut down the service on that server.

NOTE: If the LDAP server is part of a load-balanced environment, you can remove the server from the load balancing service so that the server receives no more client requests, but can still communicate with its replication partners.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Site Server 3.0.

Keywords: kbnofix kbprb KB264911

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