RE: [ActiveDir] Number of user objects in an OU

[Mulnick, Al]

Right.  Questions about usage, concurrency, other apps etc will also factor into what you're doing as well as network connections etc.    I would guess that adsizer would be helpful to you in sizing your Active Directory deployment.   Having a good understanding of the types of clients and the usage patterns would be extremely helpful to you in the long run as well.   Good luck Sam,   Al From: Rich Milburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Number of user objects in an OU Perhaps a more relevant question is how you are going to be distributing the load among servers - i.e. are you looking at multiple servers, and what kind of clients?  The PDC emulator can take a big hit with a lot of downlevel clients.  AD can handle it easily, but how well will your server hardware?    Rich   From: Sam Khoury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Number of user objects in an OU   Approx 57,000 student accounts I need in a single OU... about 3,000 student labs PC to join the domain for policies... Rob if AD supports over 10 million objects I shouldn't have a problem, *hopefully* Mulnick, Al wrote: One of the questions that hasn't been asked of Rob yet, is what is your expectation once you've loaded x number of objects.  What do you expect from it and how do you expect it to function?   From: Bernard, Aric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Number of user objects in an OU We have loaded up over 100,000,000 objects in a single domain and divided them up amongst 52 OUs. Aric Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 12:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Number of user objects in an OU Computers and Users are represented as objects within AD... I can't remember the exact number of objects which you can get upto but AD supports way over 10 million (someone will telll u the exact number, if not then it will be on the web). I have heard things in the past about some large corp's testing upto a billion objects with success. BR, Rob Sam Khoury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/01/2004 05:08 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject [ActiveDir] Number of user objects in an OU Hello All, I am new to this group but already can see that the calibre of the people present will be a great help... I am curious to learn the number of user objects that Active Directory can handle in a single OU, it surely must have a limit, any other limitations to the number of PC's that can join a domain etc would be great as well. 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