How it works...
The tombstone lifetime period is set at the domain level and applies to all domain controllers in the Active Directory domain.
The tombstone lifetime period instructs the garbage collection process on each domain controller with the period to wait before removing objects from the database after receiving a delete update for an object and processing the update as a tombstone for the object.
The default tombstone lifetime period for an Active Directory domain that has been set up and run by domain controllers running Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 is 60 days. Active Directory domains that have begun their life run by domain controllers running Windows Server 2008, or newer versions of Windows Server, have a default ...
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