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: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 _____ From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com] 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/> ~
