So they don't age out if you disable the DLT-S-S, only if you stop the DLT-C-S and let the DLT-S-S run for another 90 days.
Hmm - thinking if it wouldn't be neat to use dynamic objects for DLT (and DNS?) Ulf |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de |Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 10:22 PM |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Disabling "Distributed Link Tracking Server" on domain Controllers | |ehhh... according to the KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=312403) objects do age out.. | |<QUOTE> |It is not critical that you manually delete the Distributed Link Tracking objects after you stop the Distributed Link Tracking server |service unless you have to reclaim the disk space that is being consumed by these objects as quickly as possible. Distributed Link |Tracking clients prompt the Distributed Link Tracking server to update links every 30 days. The Distributed Link Tracking Server service |scavenges objects that have not been updated in 90 days. |<QUOTE> | | |Jorge | |________________________________ | |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of joe |Sent: Mon 11/28/2005 10:10 PM |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Disabling "Distributed Link Tracking Server" on domain Controllers | | |They don't age out. You need to delete them. MS cleans up very little in the directory automatically. Actually I was having an offlist |conversation with one of my MS friends about this topic in regards to the previous FSP question. When deleting them it isn't too much |impact, however, when they get purged out after the tombstone expires you may find your DCs chugging away if you have lots. I have seen |hundreds of thousands of the filelinks in a directory before eating up tremendous space. | |Personally I would hope the AD admins are doing a good job cleaning things up but for all practical purposes, most places aren't cleaning |up and have no clue that they should be or that they need to be. The hard part, when SHOULD the system automatically delete something. It |comes down it being able to identify without a shadow of a doubt that the object isn't needed (say computer objects, FSP, etc) or could |be perfectly reconstituted if necessary in the event of a bad delete. | | joe | |________________________________ | |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AD |Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 12:52 PM |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Disabling "Distributed Link Tracking Server" on domain Controllers | | |Thanks for info the joe and Guido, | |Because of our politics where I work, modifiying 40000 workstations is not that easy. Changing 20 DCs on the other hand is a walk in the |park. | |If I do not remove all of the filelinks manually, aren't they going to age out automatically after 60 days? | |Thanks | |Y | |________________________________ | |From: Grillenmeier, Guido |Sent: Mon 28/11/2005 11:46 AM |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Disabling "Distributed Link Tracking Server" on domain Controllers | | |nope, no known impact (unless you have specifically deployed an app that makes use of this service - none of the MS apps do, which is why |the service is disabled by default in Win2003). | |however, if you want to make sure, why don't you just reverse your disabling process: first disable all clients, then disable the service |on the DCs. | |Don't forget to cleanup the records underneath your domain's System\FileLinks\ObjectMoveTable and System\FileLinks\VolumeTable containers |as these will surely contain a lot of garbage. | |/Guido | |________________________________ | |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AD |Sent: Montag, 28. November 2005 17:40 |To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org |Subject: [ActiveDir] Disabling "Distributed Link Tracking Server" on domain Controllers | | |As anyone found any issues in disabling the "distributed link tracking server" on windows 2000 server domain controllers? | |I would like to take a two step approach in disabling this useless service. First on the DCs and them on all workstations. I was just |wondering if there would be an impact on the clients seeing that cannot communicate with the server. | |Thanks | |Yves | | |This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential |information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are |not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. |List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx |List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx |List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
