Updated Active Directory capacity planning guidance published

re: Updated Active Directory capacity planning guidance published

Justin Hall MSFT — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:17:27 GMT

Thanks for the question Remigio. To add on Kurt's comment, the author for the capacity planning guide, Ken Brumfield, indicated that most of the information required to do this is collected by either the OS MP or the AD MP. Since the data is already in SCOM, use the existing built in functionality to review the performance data in accordance with the article. Unfortunately, at this time there are no built in reports to simplify this effort. However, knowledge of T-SQL and the SCOM DataWarehouse structure will facilitate querying the data and doing the calculations necessary. This customization and expertise is available through organizations such as Microsoft Consulting Services.

re: Updated Active Directory capacity planning guidance published

Kurt L Hudson MSFT — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:08:53 GMT

Yes, there are Management Packs for Active Directory. Here is a link to the download the Windows Server 2008 Management Pack: www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

re: Updated Active Directory capacity planning guidance published

Remigio — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:43:51 GMT

Quite good post! Did you know if there's something that could be used from System Center Operation Manager 2007 to compare the actual implementation with a Healthy Model (something like a baseline, as Management Packs also have) of AD? . I'm considering that SCOM is monitoring all the Domain Controllers on the infrastructure.