Enable tombstone logging (VBScript)

This code can be found in Chapter 17 of Active Directory Cookbook, 2nd edition

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' This VBScript code enables garbage collection logging.

' ---------------------------------------------------------------
' From the book "Active Directory Cookbook" by Robbie Allen
' ISBN: 0-596-00466-4
' ---------------------------------------------------------------

' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
strDCName = "<DomainControllerName>"
' Logging level 3 should be sufficient, but you can increase to 5 if necessary 
intValue = 3  
' ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------

const HKLM = &H80000002
strNTDSReg = "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Diagnostics"
set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strDCName & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
objReg.SetDWORDValue HKLM, strNTDSReg, "6 Garbage Collection", intValue
WScript.Echo "Garbage Collection logging enabled"

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