how to fire a LDAP query in ADUC

so you don't have to open ldp.exe or ldifde

in ADUC, find, customer search, advanced, go

how to clean ghost server object from AD
ADSI: DC ou,
system\file replication service\domain system volumn
Ntdsutil
metabase cleanup
DNS
NS/A records

see: Q216498

FileMon, RegMon from www.sysinternals.com to monitor which file(s), registry is being accessed
if want to know which AD object is being accessed, use netmon

also fport.exe to monitor TCP/IP ports