Identifying Linked-Value Replication/Universal Group Membership Caching

Previously, all groups in AD DS had their membership listed as a multivalued attribute. This meant that any time the group membership was changed, the entire group membership needed to be re-replicated across the entire forest. Windows Server 2012 includes an incremental replication approach to these objects, known as linked-value replication. This approach significantly reduces replication traffic associated with AD DS.

Directly associated with this concept, Windows Server 2012 allows for the creation of DCs that cache universal group membership. This means that it no longer is necessary to place a GC server in each site. Any time a user utilizes a universal group; the membership ...

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