Good time to chuck that video if that is indicative of the quality of the guy's advice. Would have been fun if he was at the ESE session I attended today with one of the primary ESE devswho doesn't suffer a fool well.
You only need to do it if there is some gain to be had, like after a big migration or mass deletion., removal of GC role etc. How big is your dit? (no Shook answers required) You can turn on garbage collection logging and an event will be written to the event log telling you the size of the dit and what could be reclaimed. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787136.aspx From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: #NetworkAdmin 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 ********************************************************************** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
