An upgrade that saves space

re: An upgrade that saves space

Guido — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 10:48:00 GMT

other ways to save space in the DIT is to remove unneccessary information from it or at least move it into an application partition so that the objects don't replicate to GCs. The latter is related to moving DNS records to the respective App partitions (should not really be approached until all DNS servers have been upgraded to 2003).

But other unneccessary stuff involves the Distributed Link Tracking records: they also waste a lot of space in the DIT as they're not reall used by any app. My recommendation: disable the Distributed Link Tracking Services on DCs and then remove the respective records from all domain NCs (within the System container). Naturally you can't really regain the space until an offline defrag after the tombstone lifetime (if you needed more space quickly, I'd first set minimal ACLs on the objects prior to deleting them). Good news: the Distributed Link Tracking services are turned off by default in Win 2003 ;-)

re: An upgrade that saves space

joe — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:50:00 GMT

Great post ~Eric. Keep them coming. Heres a topic idea... Discussion around maximum record sizes and administrative limits on objects. And aother... Can indexing hurt you? And... Is there any benefit to indexing objectclass and why does it help? That should keep you going for a bit. :o)

re: An upgrade that saves space

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 01:22:00 GMT

Hi Eric, great info - I wasn't aware of this but greatly apprechiate it. Curious to see more.

Horse, go get in front of that cart would ya?

Eric Fleischman's WebLog — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 08:08:00 GMT

Horse, go get in front of that cart would ya?

Eric Fleischman's WebLog — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 08:09:00 GMT