From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 5:31 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Disabling "Distributed Link Tracking Server" on domain Controllers
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bernard, Aric
Sent: Mon 11/28/2005 10:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Disabling "Distributed Link Tracking Server" on domain Controllers
Might be a problem if the service is disabled,
no?
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Jorge de
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 1:22
PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
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
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From:
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Sent: Mon 11/28/2005
10:10 PM
To: [email protected]
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
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From:
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On Behalf Of AD
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 12:52 PM
To:
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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:
[email protected]
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
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From:
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On Behalf Of AD
Sent: Montag, 28. November 2005 17:40
To:
[email protected]
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
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