Group Policy Management Console Overview (Administering Group Policy with Group Policy Management Console)

In the past, administrators have been required to use several Microsoft tools to manage Group Policy, such as the Active Directory Users and Computers, Active Directory Sites and Services, and Resultant Set of Policy snap-ins. GPMC integrates the existing Group Policy functionality exposed in these tools into a single, unified console, along with several new capabilities.

Built-in to GPMC is support for managing multiple domains and forests, making it possible for administrators to easily manage Group Policy across an enterprise. Administrators have complete control of which forests and domains are listed in GPMC, making it possible to display only pertinent parts of an environment.

By default, the first time GPMC is started it loads the forest and domain containing the user object logged on to the computer. Administrators can then specify which forests and domains to display. When the console is closed, GPMC automatically saves the last view and will return to that view the next time the user opens that console.

The console tree on the left side of the snap-in contains GPMC’s root node Group Policy Management. Each forest appears as a sub node of GPMC’s root node, and is named after the forest root domain for that forest, pre-pended with the word “Forest.” Each forest has either three or four sub nodes of its own: Domains, Sites, Group Policy Modeling, and Group Policy Results. The Group Policy Modeling node is only shown in a forest that has the Windows Server 2003 schema for Active Directory. To perform a Group Policy Modeling analysis, you must also have at least one domain controller that is running Windows Server 2003.

 

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How do I defragment the Active Directory to make it smaller in size?

Active Directory routinely performs online database defragmentation, but this is limited to the disposal of tombstoned objects. The database file cannot be compacted while Active Directory is mounted (or online).

An NTDS.DIT file that has been defragmented offline (compacted), can be much smaller than the NTDS.DIT file on its peers.

However, defragmenting the NTDS.DIT file isn’t something you should really need to do. Normally, the database self-tunes and automatically tombstoning the records then sweeping them away when the tombstone lifetime has passed to make that space available for additional records.

Defragging the NTDS.DIT file probably won’t help your AD queries go any faster in the long run.

So why defrag it in the first place?

One reason you might want to defrag your NTDS.DIT file is to save space, for example if you deleted a large number of records at one time.

To create a new, smaller NTDS.DIT file and to enable offline defragmentation, perform the following steps:

  1. Back up Active Directory (AD).

  2. Reboot the server, select the OS option, and press F8 for advanced options.

  3. Select the Directory Services Restore Mode option, and press Enter. Press

  4. Enter again to start the OS.

  5. W2K will start in safe mode, with no DS running.

  6. Use the local SAM’s administrator account and password to log on.

  7. You’ll see a dialog box that says you’re in safe mode. Click OK.

  8. From the Start menu, select Run and type cmd.exe

  9. In the command window, you’ll see the following text. (Enter the commands in bold.)

C:\> ntdsutil
ntdsutil: files
file maintenance:info
....
file maintenance:compact to c:\temp

  1. You’ll see the defragmentation process. If the process was successful, enter quit to return to the command prompt.

  2. Then, replace the old NTDS.DIT file with the new, compressed version. (Enter the commands in bold.)

C:\> copy c:\temp\ntds.dit %systemroot%\ntds\ntds.dit

  1. Restart the computer, and boot as normal.

 


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