On this post we will describe how to do a spring clean on your active directory database file ntds.dit.
The first step will be to search for stale objects in your domain, if after collecting those objects you don’t find many of them, do not hope to gain some space on your database. For example the size of a user object is at the minimum 4Ko, the size may vary depending on the number of attributes the account has. Check this article for more information on objects size.
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