Microsoft Windows 2000 Patch: ADSI Performance Deg Update

This update resolves the "Performance Degradation with ADSI" issue in Windows 2000, and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article Q274172. Download now to ensure that adding a large number of users through the Active Directory Service Interface (ADSI) will not consume memory resources and decrease performance.

Adding a large number of users through ADSI can cause the Lsass.exe process to grow rapidly and increase memory use, resulting in performance problems. (Lsass.exe is the service responsible for all domain-related functions, such as user logon validation and user-account management.) This update will slow this growth, resulting in less usage of memory resources and better performance.