Active Directory Scalability – Maximum Limits
Filed in Architecture on Jun.25, 2009
Maximum number of users:
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/library/cc756101(WS.10).aspx
Above link explains these useful details:
- Maximum Number of Objects
- Maximum Number of Security Identifiers
- Group Memberships for Security Principals
- FQDN Length Limitations
- File Name Length Limitations
- Additional Name Length Limitations
- Maximum Number of GPOs Applied
- Trust Limitations
- Maximum Number of Accounts per LDAP Transaction
- Recommended Maximum Number of Users in a Group
- Recommended Maximum Number of Domains in a Forest
- Recommended Maximum Number of Domain Controllers in a Domain
- Recommended Maximum Kerberos Settings
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