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Showing posts with label Windows 2003. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows 2003. Show all posts

What is Global Catalog?

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Global Catalog authenticates network user logons and fields inquiries about objects across a forest or tree. Every domain has at least one GC that is hosted on a domain controller. In Windows 2000, there was typically one GC on every site in order to prevent user logon failures across the network.

What types of classes exist in Windows Server 2003 Active Directory?

Structural class:
The structural class is important to the system administrator in that it is the only type from which new Active Directory objects are created. Structural classes are developed from either the modification of an existing structural type or the use of one or more abstract classes.