Periodically, duplicate entires appear in our Domino Directory, ie there are two entries for the same user. This is not a replication conflict - both entries appear as full entries. This causes problems with mail delivery in that mail is not delivered to the user while there are two entries in the directory.
Is there an automated way of removing duplicates from the directory or, even better, is there a way of preventing duplicates from being created in the first place? I can only find support documents on lotus.com relating to preventing duplication in the directory catalog, which we do not use.
Subject: Duplicate entries (people) in Domino 6.5.4 Directory
Firstly find out what is creating these documents. Go through the log
(analysis - server name log) Database > Usage
Then go to the Names.nsf and see who or what is writing to the DB at about the time of creation.
This will let you know where they are coming from and how to stop it.
Subject: RE: Duplicate entries (people) in Domino 6.5.4 Directory
Similar to deleted documents reappearing
A big problem encountered by many users:
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/55c38d716d632d9b8525689b005ba1c0/1acb01c8dc57378785257377002dfd5f?OpenDocument
Deleted documents are reappearing after replication
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21098733
It’s possible to find them by script with the AddedToThisFile API.
Q&As about replication purge intervals and cutoff dates
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21110117
How to track down where replication changes originate
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21225071
Find Old documents or deleted documents pushed back to server by replication
Link : http://www.openntf.org/Projects/codebin/codebin.nsf/CodeByDate/300F25985BCB5CA38625737900608E54
Description
Tool to find Old documents or deleted documents pushed back to server by replication
This db allows you to find the Added to file date of all person documents in your NAB.
The search is done against the Mail Users views.
In your search , you have to specify which mail servers (From your mail users view) to look at.
You can reuse this code to search other dbs, or other types of document sin the NAB (server documents, holiday documents, etc)
JYR