passed 290

raskali

well just passed the 290, getting ready for the beast in a few weeks.....iam a little worried due to all the reviews i hear about it............

anyway i can across a question the seems to be a little unclear to me.....

- How do you view the global catalog data?

i know how to set a DC as as GC but iam a little confused as to how to view the actual data that is stored in the GC.......is this just the info stored in the ntds file? Also how can you easily determine which DC's are all configured as GC's

All help is greatly apopreciated

royal

Congrats on the pass.

The big difference between a DC and a GC is that a GC contains a copy of the Domain Partition for every domain in the Forest. A GC can read and write to its own domain and can only read other domain (big reason there's DSProxy issues in Exchange in certain complex multi-site/multi-domain environments which I can go into a bit if anybody cares).

These other Domain partitions contain every single object for the other domains but not every attribute, only the most common. You can go into the Schema and specify certain attributes to replicate to the GCs, however.

So because of this, viewing data on a GC isn't really different than viewing it on a DC. You can use LDP though to navigate your AD partitions and view the data. ADSIEdit is also used for this. ADSIEdit will show you ALL attributes and LDP will show you most common attributes and is more flexible with ways you can navigate.