A Quick Tip To Enable White Space Logging

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White Space Logging is enabled to know the actual “White Space” in the domain controller database. You enable this by modifying the following registry of the domain controller.

  • KEY NAME: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Diagnostics\
  • Entry Name: 6 Garbage Collection\
  • Value: 1(enabled), 0(disabled)

After this has been enabled on a domain controller, an Event ID 1646 will be generated next time the Garbage Collection process runs. The Garbage Collection process runs every 12 hours, by default. The Event ID will tell you the actual white space on the domain controller.

 

 

 

About The Author

Nirmal Sharma is a MCSEx3, MCITP and was awarded the Microsoft MVP award in Directory Services and Windows Networking. He specializes in Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Directory Services, Failover Clusters, Hyper-V, PowerShell Scripting and System Center products. Nirmal has been involved with Microsoft Technologies since 1994. In his spare time, he likes to help others and share some of his knowledge by writing tips and articles on various sites.

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