No idea but I can't imagine why you would want to. Also only 2008 lets you do this pseudo online.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Compact the ntds.dit Maybe Lucid8 sells a tool to compact NTDS.DIT? I mean, their GOexchange tool runs ESEUTIL on a regular basis.... this sounds like the same kind of deal :) David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 2:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Compact the ntds.dit If you did the inplace upgrade in a large org you'd definitely see 40%+ space gain overnight from the SD single instancing here. Even then so it's not generally worth the hassle for the minimal amount of disk space you typically get back. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Compact the ntds.dit Agreed. 2-3 accounts a month is not worth doing this for. I've seen some multi-GB DIT files that have benefitted significantly from compaction. But this is for a large bank (Global Fortune 500 company) that's had some of these DCs since they first put in Win2k AD Cheers Ken ________________________________ From: Christopher Bodnar [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 26 March 2009 7:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Compact the ntds.dit I have heard of compacting the AD DB, but not as a regular maintenance task. Take a look at this: http://www.petri.co.il/active_directory_offline_defragmentation.htm If you had a very large number of objects deleted and you wanted to reclaim the space, I would say do it as a one-time procedure. Not as a maintenance task. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 ________________________________ From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: imceaex-_o=butler_ou=wabutler_cn=recipients_cn=networkad...@butlerahs.com Subject: Compact the ntds.dit Has anyone ever heard of defragging or compacting the ntds.dit file once a month? According to these videos I have to study from, the guy sez once a month, heck I never did it and non of the engineers here has ever heard of doing it. It's not like we have a revolving door here, 2 or 3 accounts a month. Luke L. Brumbaugh Network Engineer Butler Animal Health Supply Ph:(614) 659-1736 ********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank you. Butler Animal Health Supply ********************************************************************** ________________________________ This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
