I believe running an offline defrag is one way to check for and potentially clear "issues" with the .DIT. I'd be more specific, but I can't remember the details. It's something about how an offline defrag can correct some types of corruption or something like that.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Murray > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 14:57 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to automate offline > defrag on the AD > > Just my opinion, but I would still suggest that this approach > is unnecessary. > > Tony > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Carr, Jonathan > (OFT) > Sent: Mittwoch, 15. September 2004 21:37 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to automate offline > defrag on the AD > > I would like to setup a schedule for all the 100+ dc's to > defrag offline > 2 to 4 times a year > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mulnick, Al > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:34 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to automate offline > defrag on the AD > > I'd be curious why you are wanting to defrag the dit > automatically. Can we assume that you want to schedule it > for the wee hours of the night and hence that's why you want > to do this automatically/scripted? > > If so, it might not be a bad idea to do this during the day > when you can watch it. Only do it to one dc at a time of > course and the clients (not > Exchange) shouldn't notice. A DC going off-line is a normal > occurrence in AD and is planned for by AD aware clients in most cases. > > > Once done with the first one, go to the next and so forth until done. > > FWIW, it sounds like a bad query or application that's going > after the DC's. > Especially if it's happening daily at about the same time. > > Al > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Robert Rutherford > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to automate offline > defrag on the AD > > Just curious... > > How many other DC's do you have? > Are you saying the other DC's aren't having the same issue? > > Just curious why MS would recommend you defrag the AD. > > BR > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Carr, Jonathan > (OFT) > Sent: 15 September 2004 14:48 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to automate offline > defrag on the AD > > We are troubleshoot an issue with MS and they suggested we do this. > It appears that at a certain time during the day (give or > take 30 min.) our core DC's (4 servers) go nuts. These > servers are not the core bridgeheads. > LSASS uses every piece of memory it can get for about 2 hrs. > The dc runs out of memory and LSASS starts paging memory. > Then it goes away. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Murray > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 8:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Is there a way to automate offline > defrag on the AD > > I'd be interested to know why you might want to do this. I > would expect an offline defrag to be required only in > exceptional circumstances, e.g. > to reclaim space following a demerger in which many objects > have . It's not something you need to perform regularly as > the NTDS.DIT is maintained automatically using built-in > utilities anyway. > > Tony > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: "Carr, Jonathan \(OFT\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:06:30 -0400 > > Is there a way to automate offline defrag on the AD. It is > a real pain > to do the MS article way of defragging the NTDS.DIT. Does > anybody know > of a batch, vbs or utility that does offline defrag of the AD ????? > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Sent via the WebMail system at mail.activedir.org > > > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > ============================================================== > ========= > Scanned for virus infection by Messagelabs > ============================================================== > ========= > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
