AD Group membership Question

Hey there,

Is there a limitation on number of objects that can be added to a AD group?
I'm referring to both Security and Distribution group.

Thanks,
Sleepless in Seattle

Howdie!

Am 01.06.2010 19:45, schrieb Venkatesh:
> Is there a limitation on number of objects that can be added to a AD group?
> I'm referring to both Security and Distribution group.

Prior to a forest functional level, you probably shouldn't add more than
5000 objects into a group as there are rep issues with that. With a
forest functional level of "Windows Server 2003", these issues are gone
- so there's no practical limit.

Cheers,
Florian

Florian Frommherz [MVP] wrote:
> Howdie!
>
> Am 01.06.2010 19:45, schrieb Venkatesh:
>> Is there a limitation on number of objects that can be added to a AD
>> group? I'm referring to both Security and Distribution group.
>
> Prior to a forest functional level, you probably shouldn't add more
> than 5000 objects into a group as there are rep issues with that.
> With a forest functional level of "Windows Server 2003", these issues
> are gone - so there's no practical limit.
>
> Cheers,
> Florian

"So far, testing in this area has yet to reveal any new recommended limits
to the number of members in a group or any other linked multivalued
attribute. Production environments have been reported to exceed 4 million
members, and Microsoft scalability testing reached 500 million members."

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...spx#BKMK_Users


One honking AD to have more than 500 million users. Guess that's above the
'practical', eh Florian.

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/kj