139network direCtory serviCes
Stored in the domain partition, the domain partition data are replicated to the other
domain controllers in the same domain. All the changes made to the domain partition
data on one domain controller will be replicated to all the other domain controllers in
the same domain. e domain controllers also have two nondomain directory parti-
tions: the schema partition and application partition, which store forestwide data.
e schema is replicated to all the domain controllers in the forest. As the optional
application partition can be generated by one or more applications, it can be used for
redundancy, availability, or fault tolerance of application data. is partition does not
have to be replicated to all the domain ...