Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Xiaotian Liu

Fan Zhang

Wei Xiao

Zhan Li

Sheng Liang

Chunfeng Chen

Scanning and rescanning detect state inconsistencies between data entities in repositories or other components of a distributed computing environment. First, entities are scanned based on a cutoff time TO. Entities for which state comparison is undesired are placed in a skipped entity list. Any inconsistencies found in other entities is reported. Then subsequent rescanning fetches state and attempts to pare down the skipped entity list. Rescanning may be capped. Inconsistencies may be detected without requiring downtime from services that update data entity state, and false reports of inconsistency may be avoided.

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