Microsoft
MicrosoftExcellent article. Ryan pops the hood and shows you the engine's internals: pistons, crankshaft, camshaft, variable valve timing. You come away understanding how things work right at the heart of the system that lets a standard user or an admin do their job. Following this author is like following the white rabbit: you go all the way down the rabbit hole, straight to Wonderland.
One point that stuck with me is the deferred link cleanup when the AD Recycle Bin is enabled. A huge group deleted months ago can quietly become a time bomb: once the deleted object lifetime expires, the DC has to process millions of backlinks, and the resulting long-running transactions can exhaust the version store and stall replication domain-wide. Lowering the "Links process batch size" alongside raising "EDB max ver pages" is a great mitigation to know about. Thanks for the deep dive!
