According to Tony Redmond's Exchange 2003 book, the HP/Compaq combined
DIT file was 12GB in AD on Win2k and dropped to 7GB under 2003. Not sure how
typical that is.
I'd
think worst case you'd end up about the same place you are now. IIRC, there
aren't that many schema changes, so the structural size shouldn't change that
much.
Roger
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Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.
Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Parker, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] 2003 NTDS.DIT sizeAll,We have 53,000 user AD environment. The current size of the NTDS.DIT is just under 2GB.I am reading Chapter 9 of the 2003 planning document and on page 368 it states:"On the drive that will contain the Active Directory database, NTDS.dit, provide 0.4 gigabytes (GB) of storage for each 1,000 users. ..."Now, if this is true, that is saying when I upgrade to 2003, my database will grow from 2GB to 21GB. This seems a little hard to believe. We are going to be doing this in the lab shortly, but we are planning additional hardware, and this seems a little "off".Can anyone confirm this?
