just created a new group, and both the new group and the organizational unit I put in the new group are gone! What should I do? A: You’ve stumbled across one of the unavoidable problems of a multimaster directory environment. As you’re aware, any administrator can modify Active Directory (AD) by connecting to any domain controller in a domain. AD replicates changes to all domain controllers so that, eventually, they all contain the changes the administrator made. The key word, of course, is even