The new forest features of domain renaming and forest restructuring are only available after all DCs in the entire forest have been upgraded to Windows Server 2003 and the forest functional level has been raised to the Windows Server 2003 level.

Cross-forest trusts are another new feature of Windows Server 2003 that when used, result in a configuration called federated forests. Without the forest trust, Windows-based Kerberos authentication between forests would not work.

Linked value replication provides a solution to Windows 2000 s limit of 5000 direct group members by replicating only those members that changed instead of replicating the entire group.

Functional levels are a mechanism that Microsoft uses to remove backward compatibility within the Active Directory once it is no longer needed. In Windows Server 2003, there are two additional functional levels to consider in both domains and forests, as compared to Windows 2000 (where the functional levels were called modes ).

You should know what type of domain you want to install before you begin, and the namespace it will use.

To improve a domain s reliability, you should always create at least two DCs in each domain.

Application Director Partitions allow the fine tuning of the replication of DNS Active Directory Integrated zones.

The Schema Master and Domain Naming Master roles are only present at the forest root.

The first DC that you install in the forest is the root DC. It...