Help! Active Directory Terminology!

D-boy

Do I have the right understanding of Active Directory Terminology?

Am I right in saying, "a Root Domain/Parent Domain & Child domain make up a Tree within a Forest?"

And that "a Forest only has one Global Catalog?"



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Thanks,

D-boy

hhisgett

Yes, You are correct with the Root/Parent Domain & Child domain make a tree within a forest.

Here is a breakdown of the FSMO roles:

Domain Naming Master = only 1 per Forest
Schema Master = only 1 per Forest
Infrastructure Master = 1 per domain
RID Master = 1 per domain
PDC Emulator = 1 per domain
Global Catalog = at least 1 per SITE but cannot be on the same server as infrastructure master. Global Catalogs aid authentication processes so that they do not have to cross WAN links.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197132/EN-US/

D-boy

Ok thank you for your quick response! I think before I was thinking to deep into it that it was starting to confuse me. Thanks again!

One more question - In a forest, all objects of the same type share the same properties (schema)? What does that mean?

hhisgett

My understanding is that it means that the objects are all located in the same active directory database. One forest = one active directory database = all domain trees share the AD db.

D-boy

Thank you, I also found a good link that explains it all...

http://windows.about.com/library/weekly/aa010902a.htm

hhisgett

Hey no problem.