Re: AD Design

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From: Sean Siler (sean_siler_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:02:47 -0400

Enkidu,

This, too, is an option in the MMC. You can change it to a larger number if
you have a large number of objects in your OU.

:-)

Sean Siler
MCSE, MCT

"Enkidu" <enkidu@xyzcliffpxyz.com> wrote in message
news:taoac0hc6vahtjnd6q5vs8slqn064qv05b@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 18:13:46 -0700, "Eric Chamberlain, CISSP"
> <eric.chamberlain@newsgroups.nospam> wrote:
>
> >Your design would depend on how unique your users are. We have 40,000
users
> >in a single OU, because they are all treated the same, shared by
> >departments, and centrally managed. OU Admins then manage computers and
> >non-shared users.
> >
> Hi Eric, with all users in an OU how do you ever search for them?
> Surely every single AD search will result in the message :"Too many
> objects. Only x thousands will be shown"?
>
> This is not *my* network, but is one that I know of. Admittedly I have
> far fewer users <grin>, but I still can't imagine searching the
> *whole* or major part of the directory without utilising the OU
> structure.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cliff

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