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Change the Active Directory Search Limit

For servers with an excessive number of accounts or groups in a single endpoint, ADS automatically does a paged search to retrieve all objects, thus it should not be necessary to increase the search limits.

However, if you choose to increase this limit, you should modify the following parameters for Active Directory:

• MaxPageSize, the maximum page size that is supported for LDAP responses. The default is 1000 records.
• MaxResultSetSize, the maximum size of the LDAP result set. The default is 262144 bytes.

By default, these objects are located at:

CN=Default Query Policy,CN=Query-Policies,CN=Active Directory Service,CN=Windows NT,CN=Services,CN=Configuration

Increase the values of these parameters to meet your needs. If necessary, consult your ADS system administrator for recommended values.

You can use the Windows 2000 NTDSUTIL.EXE utility to modify these parameters. Start the utility and select the LDAP Policies option from the prompt. For detailed instructions to use this utility, see article Q315071 on the Microsoft web site.