16. What are sites? What are they used for?

Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)Sites in Active Directory represent the physical structure, or topology,...

15. What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is REPADMIN?

Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP is an application protocol...

14. What are the Support Tools? Why do I need them?

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13. Trying to look at the Schema, how can I do that?

Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)Active Directory Schema Tools and SettingsWhen existing class and attribute...

12. Why not make all DCs in a large forest as GCs?

Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)Unless you have some really bad connections that may not be able to handle...

11. How do you view all the GCs in the forest?

Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)DSQUERY server can be used to locate global catalogsTo search the entire...

10. What is the Global Catalog?

Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)The global catalog is a distributed data repository that contains a searchable,...

9. How do you view replication properties for AD partitions and DCs?

Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)Install Replication Monitor from Support tools, run from command line...

8. How do you create a new application partition

Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)You can create an application directory partition by using the create...

7. What are application partitions? When do I use them

Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)An application directory partition is a directory partition that is replicated...

6. Name the AD NCs and replication issues for each NC

Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)There are three predefined Naming Contexts (NC)1. Domain Naming Context...

5.What is the SYSVOL folder?

Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)System Volume (SYSVOL) is a shared directory that stores the server copy...

4.Where is the AD database held? What other folders are related to AD?

Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)The Active Directory Database is Stored in %SYSTEM ROOT%\NDTS folder....

3. Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-party Directory Services? Name a few options.

Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)Active Directory is a LDAP compatible directory service and supported...

2 Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)

2. What is LDAP?LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is an Internet protocol that email and other programs use to...

1 Windows admin interview questions (includes Vista)

1. What is Active Directory?An active directory is a directory structure used on Microsoft Windows based computers and servers...

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