Christoffer Andersson has been awarded the title Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for his contribution on Directory Services from 2004-2011 and been working with Microsoft Corporation in the Technology Adoption Programs (TAP – running prerelease software in production ) for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 before they was released. 
How deletion/removal of data really works in Active DirectoryThis is the fourth post in a series of articles that will describe what’s really inside NTDS.dit and how Active Directory works on the database layer, the past three articles has been about: Explains the tables within NTDS.dit in detail as far as what they are used [...]
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How the Active Directory–Data Store Really Works (Inside NTDS.dit)–Part 4
Posted: 28th November 2012 by Christoffer Andersson in UncategorizedTags: Active Directory, Delayed Link Processing, Garbage Collection, Infrastrcuture Master, isRecycled, Link Cleaner, NTDS.dit, Phantom, PhantomIndex22, Recycle Bin, Tombstone, TombstoneLifeTime
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How the Active Directory – Data Store Really Works (Inside NTDS.dit) – Code [1-3]
Posted: 28th February 2012 by Christoffer Andersson in UncategorizedTags: Active Directory, Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), NTDS.dit
So what is the “Code [1-3]” all about and where is Part 4 of the series that you might expect? Before I go ahead with Part 4 I thought it would be a good idea to sum up Part 1 to Part 3 with code (So that you know how we figured out all this [...]
How the Active Directory – Data Store Really Works (Inside NTDS.dit) – Part 3
Posted: 20th February 2012 by Christoffer Andersson in UncategorizedTags: Active Directory, Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), NTDS.dit
This is the third post in a series of articles that will describe what’s really inside NTDS.dit and how Active Directory works on the database layer, the past two articles has been about: Explains the tables within NTDS.dit in detail as far as what they are used for, in which release of Active Directory (Windows [...]
How the Active Directory – Data Store Really Works (Inside NTDS.dit) – Part 2
Posted: 15th February 2012 by Christoffer Andersson in UncategorizedTags: Active Directory, Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), NTDS.dit
This is the second post in a series of articles that will describe what’s really inside NTDS.dit and how Active Directory works on the database layer, In an earlier post I explained the tables within NTDS.dit in detail as far as what they are used for, in which release of Active Directory (Windows Server) they [...]
How the Active Directory – Data Store Really Works (Inside NTDS.dit) – Part 1
Posted: 11th February 2012 by Christoffer Andersson in UncategorizedTags: Active Directory, Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), NTDS.dit
You might as I have asked yourself many times – What is inside NTDS.dit? (Most experienced Active Directory admins knows that NTDS.dit is the database and the physical on disk store that Active Directory uses to store information – most of you have probably got in touch with NTDS.dit during backup and restore scenarios) Long [...]