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This lesson introduces you to application directory partitions, a new feature in Windows Server 2003. It also walks you through the tasks involved in configuring and managing application directory partitions.
After this lesson, you will be able to explain the purpose of free CompTIA questions directory partition.configure an application directory partition.Manage an application directory partition.
Estimated lesson time: 30 minutes
Application Directory Partitions
An application directory partition is a directoiy partition that is replicated only to specific domain controllers. Only domain controllers running Windows Server 2003 can host a replica of an application directory partition. Applications and N10-004 can use application directory partitions to store application-specific data. Application directory partitions can contain any type of object, except security principals (users, groups, and computers). Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) is an example of a service that stores its application-specific data in an application directoiy partition.
Using an application directory partitions provides the following benefits:
Provides redundancy, availability, or fault tolerance, by replicating data to a specific domain controller or any set of domain controllers anywhere in the forest.
Reduces replication traffic because the IT Exams is only replicated to specific domain controllers.
Applications or services that use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
can continue using it to access and store their application data in Active Directory.
Application directory partitions are usually created by the applications that use them to store and replicate data. For testing and troubleshooting purposes, members of the Enterprise Admins group can manually create or manage application directory partitions using the Ntdsutil command-line tool.
