This topic is originally written by Ken Brumfield, Program Manager at Microsoft, and provides recommendations for capacity planning for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Goals of capacity planning Capacity planning is not the same as troubleshooting performance incidents. They are closely related, but quite different. The goals of capacity planning are: Properly implement and operate an en
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