Does TEM affect Windows NT/2000 operations and performance?
TEM does not affect normal Windows NT/2000 operations, such as logon authentication, background replication, and access to resources. TEM adds specialized services and the necessity for SQL Server (TEM ships with the runtime version) to the environment that require significant RAM and minimal disk space/CPU utilization. The TEM DSR/SQL combination require the most RAM, but the primary Robot service only utilizes approximately 1 MB of memory per 1000 users cached on startup. The TEM Robot service’s load time equates to approximately 1 minute per 1000 users cached. Once the service has cached the managed users on startup and the SQL database is similarly populated, user account/mailbox management performance dramatically improves over native tools. This improvement is more noticeable the larger the number (over 1000) of managed user accounts. Does TEM make it easier and faster to manage user accounts and groups? Definitely! Auto Naming, multi-select property changes, and several other Ta
