AD LDAP Question..

[ChisholM]

Hello,

My default LDAP MaxPageSize setting is set to 1000 which I need to increase and set to 5000. I used ntdsutil for doing the same and in the command prompt I did the following:

c:\program files\support tools> ntdsutil <enter>
ntdsutil: LDAP Policies <enter>
ldap policy: Set MaxPageSize to 5000 <enter>

Whenever I run the "set maxpagesize" command, it gives me an error message saying:

“*** Error: ldap_search of configurationNamingContext failed with 0x59(89 (Parameter Error).”

Any idea what is this all about? Thanks for your helps.

[Andrzejewski]

Dont worry friend. Here is what you need to do it properly:

c:\>ntdsutil.exe
ntdsutil: ldap policies
ldap policy: connections
server connections: Connect to server [Servername]
Binding to [Servername] ...
Connected to [Servername] using credentials of locally logged on user server
connections: q
ldap policy: Show Values
1.. Policy

Current(New)

MaxPoolThreads
8
MaxDatagramRecv
1024

MaxReceiveBuffer
10485760
InitRecvTimeout
120

MaxConnections
5000
MaxConnIdleTime
900

MaxActiveQueries
20
MaxPageSize
1000

MaxQueryDuration
120
MaxTempTableSize
10000

MaxResultSetSize
262144
MaxNotificationPerConn
5

ldap policy: set Maxpagesize to 50000
ldap policy: commit Changes
ldap policy: q
ntdsutil: q
Disconnecting from [Servername]

[Borgnine]

Hello ChisholM, can i know what is the actual reason you want to increase the the MaxPageSize to 5000? I'm asking this because you should know that by changing this value, you are actually tampering with the balance AD tries to achieve between operational capabilities and performance.

So i will not suggest you to go through the process because there are several alternatives for paging your query to receive all results even if they exceed 1000. This is a better way to go about what you probably intend to do.