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Guidance for resilient networks, Wi-Fi, firewalls, cabling, power, exposure reduction, and connected-device planning.
Microsoft states: “Windows Server 2008 uses site information for many purposes, including routing replication, client affinity, system volume (SYSVOL) replication, Distributed File System Namespaces (DFSN), and service location.”
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Microsoft states: “The following document discusses prerequisites that you should be familiar with before devising a forest recovery plan or attempting a recovery.”
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Microsoft states: “Account organizational units (OUs) contain user, group, and computer objects.”
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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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