In my earlier post, I showed how to add an attribute to the Partial Attribute Set in Active Directory. But how can you tell which attributes are already part of the Partial Attribute Set in the first place? You can certainly check each one manually, but that will take forever. Is there any other way...

Recently, while working with a customer who was trying to understand why a Global Catalog query might be taking longer than expected, the question of the Partial Attribute Set came up. Because not everyone understood this concept, I thought I'd write up a quick post about it. First, Active Directory...