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| Flexible Single Master Operation |
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| to prevent update conflicts |
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| maintains all modifications to the schema of the forest. The schema determines the types of objects permitted in the forest and the attributes of those objects. |
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| tracks the names of all domains in the forest and is required to add new domains to the forest or delete existing domains from the forest. It is also responsible for group membership. |
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| processes all password changes in the domain. Failed authentication attempts due to a bad password at other domain controllers are forwarded to the PDC Emulator before rejection. This ensures that a user can immediately login following a password change from any domain controller, without having to wait several minutes for the change to be replicated. Also, backwards compatibility for NT 4.0 |
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| allocates security RIDs to DCs to assign to new AD security principals (users, groups or computer objects). It also manages objects moving between domains. |
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| maintains security identifiers, GUIDs, and DN for objects referenced across domains. Most commonly it updates user and group links. |
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| What are the 5 FSMO roles? |
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Domain Naming Master Relative ID (RID) Master Infrastructure Master PDC Emulator Schema Master |
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| Which FSMO roles are Domain Wide? |
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Relative ID (RID) Master Infrastructure Master PDC Emulator |
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| Which FSMO roles are Forest Wide? |
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Domain Naming Master Schema Master |
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