How much space PDC and AD take up?

[sqlhotdog2005]

We have a server we want to promote to a PDC, but there is only about 550mb left on the C drive. There is plenty of room on D:.

Will promoting to a PDC and AD take up a lot of this space?

 

[ntinlin]

Promoting to a DC on its own doesn't really require much more space, as you surmise it is AD and login scripts, group policies that take up the room.

I suggest you look at the sizes of the \%systemroot%\ntds (which contains NTDS.DIT which is the AD database) and \%systemroot%\sysvol folders on an existing DC and see how big they are.

You can get dcpromo to put the NTDS folder on a different drive. Not sure if you can move sysvol.

If this is going to be the only DC in the domain then AD won't be too large to start with but can grow quite rapidly.

You sure you can't rebuild the server with a bigger C:?

Neill

 

[ncotton]

Or add a overflow drive and use logical striping drive merge.

Neil J Cotton
njc Information Systems
Systems Consultant

 

[sqlhotdog2005]

Thanks for those replies... will look at and will let you know.