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Microsoft states: “This article provides background information about Active Directory Domain Services in Windows Server and explains the process for upgrading domain controllers (DCs) from an earlier version of Windows Server.”
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Microsoft states: “Active Directory Domain Services contains numerous built-in accounts and groups that are granted elevated privileges to perform administrative tasks.”
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Microsoft states: “Enterprise Admins are, by default, members of the Administrators group in each domain in the forest.”
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Microsoft states: “To ensure cost efficiency, plan to place as few regional domain controllers as possible.”
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Microsoft states: “This topic explains what application vendors should consider to help ensure their application continues to work as expected after the virtualized domain controller (DC) cloning process completes.”
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Microsoft states: “This involves creating a DNS server and DNS client configuration.”
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Microsoft states: “A service account is a user account that’s created explicitly to provide a security context for services that are running on Windows Server operating systems.”
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Microsoft states: “When you create a new domain, the Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard automatically assigns all the domain-level Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) to the first domain controller that is created in that domain.”
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Microsoft states: “Functional levels determine the available Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain or forest capabilities.”
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Microsoft states: “Domain controllers that hold operations master roles, also known as flexible single master operations (FSMO) roles, to keep the directory functioning properly by performing a unique set of domain and forest management tasks.”
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