Shhh, I wasn't going to say anything though I did submit a correction to MS for the KB....
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard, Aric Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 4:59 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Disabling "Distributed Link Tracking Server" on domain Controllers Might be a problem if the service is disabled, no? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Almeida Pinto, Jorge de Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 1:22 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. 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