Windows Server 2008 R2 - ntds.dit grows abnormal

Hi all!
We have a domain with 20 domain controllers in 18 different sites, the servers are in different countries around the world. All servers are Windows Servers 2008 R2 SP1, domain functional level is Windows 2008 R2. We have about 6000 users and clients in the
domain.
Our ntds.dit file is 5,2GB in size! I think it's too big for our environment, isn't it? At the moment we don't have any problems with replication or anything else, but I wanted to know why it became that big, and it's still growing!
I found a tool dsastat in Windows 2003 support tools... i tried dsastat.exe -loglevel:debug -output:both and got an output. The DSA Diagnostics shows me a total size of 98MB! Maybe the tools doesn't work for 2008? I also tried the registry key
from this website http://rickardnobel.se/when-to-offline-defrag-ntds-dit/ to show me the garbage collection... This was the output: 
Internal event: The Active Directory Domain Services database has the following amount of free hard disk space remaining. 
Free hard disk space (megabytes):
15 
Total allocated hard disk space (megabytes):
5170
So I don't think offline defragmentation would help.
Just some more information... we have Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010, our users can upload picture to AD (size limit 10KB!). AD recycle bin is enabled in our domain.
Does anybody know a tool to get more information about what's writting so much stuff to ntds.dit file? 
Thanks for you help! Best regards
Steffi

Free hard disk space (megabytes):
15 
Total allocated hard disk space (megabytes):
5170
That is NOT very nice.. Yo do not need to do a defragmentation to recover those 15 MB space. :)
Run this process in some of your domain controllers and compare the results with this one. See if they have ~5170 space allocated to database. I believe that much information is related to the Lync and Exchange as you mentioned. Repetitive data is a case
in point. You mentioned that users are able to upload their own photo, so make sure the old photos are no longer resides somewhere in the database. 
Try to dcpromo an additional domain controller. After that what is the size of the newly promoted DC database? In that case we can drill down the problem.
BTW: Since you got 98MB from dsastat I recommend you to run the command against deleted objects. By default dsastat is not querying for deleted objects. Drop a
isDeleted=TRUE and check the results.
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    1. Is it possible to password protect folders shared in the network? If so, if someone wants to access those password protected folder through any of the computers connected to the network, will they be prompted to enter a password to be able to access it or the system will just say "access denied?" If so, please give detailed instructions on how to do it.
    2. If it is possible to password protect network folders, is it possible to put different passwords on each folders? If so please give detailed instructions on how to do it.
    3. If it is not possible to do any of the mentioned above through windows, is it possible with the use of a third-party software? If so, what are those third party software?

    Hi All,   First time on this forum and am finding it very interesting (sorry about the proposed as answer above.. hit the wrong key).
    I found this topic particularly interesting and am looking to do a similar thing but seemed to have gotten around it quite easily (if I am on the same lines as greggync777 that is).
    My problem is this I have a Home Theatre Network set up in my lounge to several locations around the house with around 8 gb of videos/music/pics etc, all works fine on connected pc's with WMC (all using Windows 7) and all is shared by family for entertainment.
    I also have a Seperate workstation where I do my work (video editing) which involves storing considerable amounts of footage and more importantly all the work files/folders all of which is confidential, at the moment is also on a seperate pc which also houses 8 hdd with around 6gb of ever growing video information.
    My point is that both these PC's ( HTPC and my WORKSTATION) are a bit too noisy despite having installed the best I can afford fans/Samsung eco green hdd's. My desire is to build a main super server running WHS 2008 (The size/Cooling/Noise etc is not a problem due to where it will be located). My main concern is Security with so many in the family having direct access to the Server so I want to restrict which files/folders they can subsequently access once there.  I want to be the only one to have access to my work from my PC and everyone else denied access.  I have set up a test rig running WHS08 and have set up access with several PC's using passwords for the server etc which was straightforward after creating a user account for them on whs08, therein laid the problem of then how to keep them from accessing my side of the server which is when I hit up on this thread after much searching. Following one of the suggestions above I went to the folder in question (in my case this will be a plus as all my work will be in one main folder with several thousand sub folders) to the security tab/permissions etc and firstly removed access to everyone except the server administrator. I then granted access only to one PC on the network - the one that is my workstation together with a password ( I meant to say upto this point everyone I had given access to the server could access my test folder), went back to my PC and was able to access as normal after entering the password. I then went to every other PC on the network (that has access to the Server) where I am pleased to say all denied me access to my folder. (my work pc by the way is running XPsp3). Not sure if it will work for Greggync777 or if it what he is looking to do but it did for me. I apologise also if I have rambled on a bit for my first thread.
    tks   Dave

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