We have been writing a ton of information to Active Directory lately! From computer serial numbers, device models, and our current logged in user, we’ve greatly extended the everyday practical benefits of Active Directory. But does this come at a price? Reading the comments of a few different websites, you would certainly think so. Here is a sample:
if you do it [write to a computer] after every logon, you can quickly exhaust the USN for the whole AD domain! And then the domain is dead.
Wow! So, according to this guy – our whole domain will die? That doesn’t seem right. Unfortunately, I do not know enough to accept or deny this statement so I did some research (and contacted Microsoft).