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| Microsoft Active Directory |
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| An LDAP-like directory technology created by Microsoft used to provide a network authentication structure and a convenient way to manage network resources. |
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| Flexible Single Master of Operations |
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| FSMO Role that controls and handles updates/modifications to the Active Directory schema |
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| FSMO Role that allocates pools of unique identifiers to domain controllers for use when creating objects. |
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| FSMO Role that provides backwards compatibility for NT4 clients for PDC operations (like password changes). The PDCs also run domain specific processes such as the Security Descriptor Propagator (SDPROP), and is the master time server within the domain. |
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| Infrastructure Master Role |
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| FSMO Role that synchronizes cross-domain group membership changes. The infrastructure master cannot run on a global catalog server (GCS)(unless all DCs are also GCs.) |
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| FSMO Role that controls the addition and removal of domains from the forest if present in root domain. |
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