Re: [ActiveDir] NTDS.DIT Size

2006-06-30 Thread Matt Hargraves
32 and 64-bit DCs don't have a problem being in the same environment.  Is your schema up to date with the latest revisions (R2 I believe)?

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.DIT Size

2006-06-30 Thread Joshua Coffman
hardware to throw at it.   Can 32 and 64 bit ADs comingle?   Thanks!   Josh > Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:44:46 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.DIT Size> > > Someone said this:> > Whatever needs to be loaded should 

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.DIT Size

2006-06-30 Thread Brett Shirley
3132 > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, > Guido > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 6:53 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.DIT Size > > > > 1.7GB for 250.000 users is pretty

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.DIT Size

2006-06-29 Thread Brian Desmond
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   c - 312.731.3132   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 6:53 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.DIT Size   1.7GB for 250.000 users is pretty small

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.DIT Size

2006-06-29 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
AD (unless you're replacing old server HW with new HW at the same time...). /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B. Simon-WeidnerSent: Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 23:47To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.DIT Size Hello Joshu

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.DIT Size

2006-06-29 Thread Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
;>      Weblog: http://msmvps.org/UlfBSimonWeidner   Website: http://www.windowsserverfaq.org From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Coffman Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 10:59 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] NTDS.DIT Size   Our

[ActiveDir] NTDS.DIT Size

2006-06-29 Thread Joshua Coffman
Our AD (NTDS.dit) is at 1.7GB (approx. 250,000 users).   Should an offline defrag be performed at a regular interval?   Some articles I read only say it is only worthwhile if you are running low on space. We have plenty of drive space and RAM.   At what point should the AD be moved to 64 bit?   T

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-15 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
yep, that's what I meant - but I was too lazy to add these details ;-) /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Freitag, 15. April 2005 17:56 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-15 Thread Eric Fleischman
~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:02 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size Just to clarify, it is the parts that change and are tagged to replicate that replicate. You could

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-15 Thread joe
, 2005 11:45 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size Trick question? The parts of the 100gb that will replicate are the parts that change. (not counting dcpromo of new boxes) How much is changing? Who knows. Different for everyone. ~Eric -Original Message

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-15 Thread Eric Fleischman
eally state it, so I wanted to clarify. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlos Magalhaes Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:23 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size Well Francis, How is your DNS ser

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-15 Thread Eric Fleischman
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 2:32 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size Eric, Granted but how much of that actual 100gb will be replicated over that 64k line? I can see the issue if you do a DC promo on a W2k3 server on the other size and it's the first bo

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-15 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
itions" this will create two APP partitions: 1. ForestDNS 2. DomainDNS HTH Carlos Magalhaes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Francis Ouellet Sent: 15 April 2005 02:58 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-15 Thread Francis Ouellet
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size It's also worth to point out, that you have to distinguish heavily between the OS version and the DIT size to expect. Other cleanup tasks can also strongly impact DIT size. At HP our Win2000 GCs had an average DIT size of 18GB - we then disable

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-15 Thread joe
riday, April 15, 2005 4:00 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size It's also worth to point out, that you have to distinguish heavily between the OS version and the DIT size to expect. Other cleanup tasks can also strongly impact DIT size. At HP our Win200

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-15 Thread joe
Braggert. ;o) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:36 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size Well I've seen very very large in test on many occasions

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-15 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
x27; That said it is also environment dependant :P Carlos Magalhaes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: 15 April 2005 06:00 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size Oops, I typo

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-15 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
s impact is not as dramatic (will mostly impact DIT on those DCs which aren't DNS servers...) /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike kline Sent: Freitag, 15. April 2005 05:43 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveD

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Fleischman
case. :) ~Eric -Original Message- From: Eric Fleischman Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 8:56 PM To: 'ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size It's hard to characterize how "much" connectivity you need vs. how big your db is. A huge db of

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Fleischman
m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike kline Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 8:43 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size Eric/Joe, Thanks for the great input! My test lab is VM ware running on 20 GB TB SAN that you can use

Re: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-14 Thread mike kline
ECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 4:58 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size > > See I almost cc'ed you on the response to get your input on this too as > I > knew you had played wi

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Fleischman
n I have nearby. :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 4:58 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size See I almost cc'ed you on the response to get your input on this too as I

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-14 Thread joe
D] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:35 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size I've seen larger. I've seen 15GB+ on MANY occasions, 30GB+ on quite a few occasions, and 100GB+ on a few occasions. ~Eric -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Fleischman
ivedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size The largest production DIT I have personally seen was on the order of 8GB for the GC DIT for a Fortune 5 company running about 250k users of which about 180k were Exchange enabled. Also had some 250k contacts, 200k or so computer objects, 100k or so gro

RE: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-14 Thread joe
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike kline Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 2:53 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size I know that AD can have millions of objects, just trying to see what the real world size

[ActiveDir] NTDS.dit size

2005-04-12 Thread mike kline
I know that AD can have millions of objects, just trying to see what the real world size of some your AD databases are. Do any of you have databases greater than 20GB+... or more? Thanks Mike List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List