June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
742 pages
18h 29m
English
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Global catalog server
The global catalog server holds the full writable copy of objects in its host domain and the partial copy of the objects in other domains in the same forest. The partial replica contains a copy of every object in the forest and the most commonly used attributes used by queries. Applications and users in one domain can query for the objects in another domain (same forest) via the global catalog server. All domain controllers in the domain will not be a global catalog server by default. When installing the first domain controller, it will become the global catalog server, and other domain controllers can promote them as global catalog servers according to business requirements. Every domain controller in the domain does ...