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Wayne_McIntyre
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Nov 28, 2023

Hi Martin,

 

There is no straight forward answer to this as it will depend on your data and how large the existing database is.  In most cases there will not be any meaningful impact to the overall size of the database until you start growing larger records beyond previous limits.

 

We are continuing to collect data on this in our internal testing and in a variety of environments, and have yet to see any significant changes in size with existing data replicated in from 2022 DCs.

 

 

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mashdk
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Nov 28, 2023
Thanks 😊 In my Insider Build, the NTDS.DIT file was 40MB from scratch. My 2022 DC with some test-users and other stuff is about 20MB. So, I thought this was due to the DB changes.
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    Wayne_McIntyre
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    Nov 28, 2023

    You are actually correct in that case as the initial blank database is larger with 32K pages, but as the database grows and adds more records, the percentage difference between should shrink. e.g. in my current lab my 2022 DC DIT is about 2.2GB and my vNEXT DIT is about 2.3GB

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