Design considerations for Active Directory replicationDesign considerations for Active Directory search and global
catalogsSearching the treeAccessing the global catalogDesignating global catalog serversDesignating replication attributesDesign considerations for compatibilityUnderstanding domain functional levelUnderstanding forest functional levelRaising or lowering the domain or forest functional
levelDesign considerations for Active Directory authentication and
trustsUniversal groups and authenticationUnderstanding security tokens and universal group
membership cachingEnabling universal group membership cachingNTLM and Kerberos authenticationEstablishing the initial authenticationAccessing resources after authenticationAuthentication and trusts across domain boundariesTwo-way transitive trustsShortcut trustsAuthentication and trusts across forest boundariesExamining domain and forest trustsEstablishing external, shortcut, realm, and cross-forest
trustsVerifying and troubleshooting trustsDelegating authenticationDelegated authentication essentialsConfiguring delegated authenticationConfiguring the delegated user accountConfiguring the delegated service or computer
accountDesign considerations for Active Directory operations
mastersOperations master rolesUsing, locating, and transferring the schema master
roleUsing, locating, and transferring the domain naming master
roleUsing, locating, and transferring the relative ID master
roleUsing, locating, and transferring the PDC emulator
roleUsing, locating, and transferring the infrastructure master
roleSeizing operations master roles