.DIT Database is Partitioned Database

We start intewieving people lately for Senior AD Admistrator. We offen ask same questions which I posted in my blog in the interview section. It is really astonishing to see people with many years expeince seems to forgot about .DIT database. Running DCpromo is simple task for every admin but not knowing what is getting installed cannot be forgiven, and everyone must pay attantion what is getting installed into default directories. Here again what they are and where they get installed by default

• Database NTDS.DIT
  
• Log files
  
• SYSVOL
  

Please make sure you understand and know the default foldes , when DCpromo runs. the most important aspect of Active directory is the .DIT database, because if we did not have the .DIT database we would not any place to save any kind of information. Also remember .DIT database is partitioned database, and windows 2000 has 3 partitions whereas windows 2003 has 4 partitons

Windows 2000

Domain

Configuration

Schema

Windows 2003

Domain

Configuration

Schema

Application

Best,

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