Hi Rene,
I have a friend who administers a directory for a large university with
approximately double the number of users you mention and quite a few more
servers, across 15 sites. There are no scalability problems with doing
this, but its worth noting that your life will be easier the better you
plan the initial OU structure and associated right delegation/group
policies.
If you haven't read it, grab a copy of Mission Critical Active Directory (
Mickey Balladelli, Jan de Clercq, Butterworth-Heinemann; ISBN: 1555582400).
The authors, involved with Compaq, describe how they designed and built an
AD containing 100 million users (the entire US phone book), just to prove a
point. Makes interesting reading!
Cheers,
Paul
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Comments Welcome:
I am considering the idea of merging all my child-domains back into the
parent domain but am not sure. I've have 47,568 users in AD, 112 servers
and 3,200 workstations across 8 sites. I've heard AD horror stories if you
try to have this many objects in 1 AD domain. Comments?
Rene
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From: "Salandra, Justin A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:16 AM
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Site Login
> I think you do that by setting subnets to sites and making sure that
there
> is a Global Catalog server in each site. However, all down-level
clients
> can only login to the PDC Emulator, there is no other way for down-level
> clients, unless someone has figured out a way.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rene Chakraborty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 7:37 AM
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> Subject: [ActiveDir] Site Login
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> Hello Everyone
>
> I was at Comdex in Toronto last week and got talking to a Microsoft
> Techie about how I want to eliminate the domain requirement when a
student
> logs into the network. He said you can do this by making the desktops
sign
> into the site they are apart of rather then the domain, any ideas on how
to
> do this?
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> Rene
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