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Microsoft states: “You can review the following set of changes to help understand and prepare for the schema updates performed by adprep /domainprep in Windows Server.”
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Microsoft states: “When determining the number of forests to deploy for your organization, consider the following:”
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Microsoft states: “Every Active Directory domain contains a standard set of containers and organizational units (OUs) that are created during the installation of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).”
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Microsoft states: “Forest owners are responsible for creating organizational unit (OU) designs for their domains.”
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Microsoft states: “Before you use advanced troubleshooting techniques to identify and fix Active Directory problems, configure your computers for troubleshooting.”
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Microsoft states: “In certain scenarios, it may be necessary to recover only a single domain within a forest that has multiple domains, rather than a full forest recovery.”
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Microsoft states: “Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Lightweight Directory Services (LDS) uses an Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) database.”
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Microsoft states: “In the organizational domain forest model, several autonomous groups each own a domain within a forest.”
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Microsoft states: “Designing your logical structure for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) involves defining the relationships between the containers in your directory.”
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Microsoft states: “A site link bridge connects two or more site links and enables transitivity between site links.”
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