To View or Change the Tombstone LifeTime

*To perform the following steps you'll need to be a member of the Enterprise Admins group.

By Joe Piggee Sr.
To view or change attribute values by using ADSIEdit:

1. On the Start menu, point to Run and then type ADSIEdit.msc and press Enter.
2. In the next window, click Action-> Connect to
3. In the center, change the connection point to "Select a well known Naming Context"
4. Click the drop down menu, and select Configuration, then click OK 
5. Navigate to Configuration->CN=Services->CN=Windows NT->CN=Directory Service, Right click, and select properties
6. 
7. Scroll down to "tombstoneLifetime" and double click to edit. It will be displaying the current value, which will be in days.
8. When done just click OK.
9. Click OK and then close ADSIEdit.

* When you view properties on cn=Directory Service,cn=Windows NT, cn=Services,cn=Configuration,dc=, if no value is set it means that the default value is in effect. Any value that you type in the Edit Attribute box replaces the default value when you click Set .