Group size limits in AD

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Peter Eicher

I have been trying, to no avail, to find what seems like a
simple enough fact. Exactly how many users can I put into
a secondary group (i.e. not a pre-set group like Domain
Users) in Active Directory? Specifically in the context of
an LDAP lookup on the groups.

I have seen a few MSoft articles that say 5,000 is the
limit, yet there is a reference in a non-MS article that
states "The page size limit should not be mistaken for
another limitation that Active Directory has. You can not
have more than 1000 members in a secondary user group."
(see article:
http://www.hut.fi/cc/docs/kerberos/nss_ldap.html)

Also, whatever the answer is, is it the same for Win 2000
as for 2003?
 
According to MS presentations and whitepapers the 5000 User Limit
should not exist in Windows Server 2003 when running in Windows
Server 2003 Forest Mode.

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Christian Schindler
MCSA / MCSE / MCT / CCEA

Senior Consultant

NTx BackOffice Consulting Group Austria
mailto:[email protected]
 
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