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Active Directory, 3rd Edition
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Active Directory, 3rd Edition

by Joe Richards, Robbie Allen, Alistair G. Lowe-Norris
January 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
832 pages
27h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Configuration Naming Context

The Configuration NC is the primary repository for configuration information for a forest and is replicated to every domain controller in the forest. The root of the Configuration NC is found in the Configuration container, which is a sub-container of the forest root domain. For example, the mycorp.com forest would have a Configuration NC located at cn=configuration,dc=mycorp,dc=com.

Table 3-2 contains a list of the default top-level containers found in the Configuration NC.

Table 3-2. Default top-level containers of the Configuration NC

Relative distinguished name

Description

cn=DisplaySpecifiers

Container that holds display specifier objects, which define various properties and functions of the Active Directory MMC Snap-ins.

cn=Extended-Rights

Container for extended rights (controlAccessRight) objects.

cn=ForestUpdates

Contains objects that are used to represent the state of forest and domain functional level changes. This container is new in Windows Server 2003.

cn=LostandFoundConfig

Container for orphaned objects.

cn=NTDS Quotas

Container to store quota objects, which are used to restrict the number of objects that security principals can create in a partition or container. This container is new in Windows Server 2003.

cn=Partitions

Contains objects for each naming context, application partition, and external reference.

cn=Physical Locations

Contains location objects (physicalLocation), which can be associated with ...

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