MaxPageSize ?

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Hi,

This article
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...zer/ef05b737-0a94-49ab-8deb-5acf91865531.mspx
says "...Increasing this setting beyond its default value could have an
adverse impact on your Active Directory infrastructure."
The default is 1000. It further says "This limit controls the supportable
numbers of several types of Active Directory objects. For example, each
organization can have up to 1,000 servers, up to 1,000 administrative groups,
and up to 1,000 address lists. Each administrative group can have up to 1,000
routing groups, and each routing group can have up to 1,000 connectors."

We currently have this set to 5,000 and have about 2,500 workstations. If I
change it to a 1,000 what will happen. Will I lose some workstations. Is
this an operation limit or just a query limit?

Thanks,
Patrick
 
Thanks for the respone Andrei. The answer is no, to the number of objects
over 1000. However, I have no idea what all queries exist. We do have over
1,000 workstations and user accounts. So I would assume we have queries that
return all of these objects. Does this parameter apply just to the objects
you mention or all objects in AD? Is this parameter specific to Exchange?
 
Man I really hope that that Exchange article was written by a bonehead instead
of those being real limitations. BTW, the Address List hard limit is ~850 in
Windows 2000 and ~1300 in Windows Server 2003 AD due to how it is used on one of
the Exchange objects. Regardless of page size.

But anyway, yeah, anyone asking for a max page size increase has a POS app that
I would argue wasn't written properly for AD. Your workstations will work fine
with a page size of 1000, that is what they were designed to work with.


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Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net


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Andrei,

I'm not sure how or who set this to 5,000. I only discovered as such using
the MS Exchange Best Practices tools and was investigating why and if I
should change it back to the default.

Thanks,
 
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