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Re:Millions of accounts compromised because there is no spec... by Spooky23 on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @10:02AM (#9420447)
I'm pretty sure that with the appropriate infrastructure, The answer is yes. From a scaling limits POV, AD can support billions of objects. Pretty sure the Netscape derivatives (Oracle, the former Sun Directory Server, Red Hat) have implementations that large. I've worked with one with 40M user accounts and we weren't near any scaling limits.
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