What
I've read from Microsoft ...
- GC Partial Attribute Set (PAS)
- In Windows 2000, modification required full
rebuild of GC (full synchronization of read-only naming context)
- When an additional attribute
was marked for inclusion in the GC, all GC servers reset their USNs for
GC attributes to 0 and rebuilt the Partial Attribute Set (PAS) from
scratch
- In Windows Server 2003, can preserve GC
synchronization state instead of resetting
- Propagation of PAS thus no longer results in
full rebuild of global catalog partitions
- Only the newly-included
attributes are replicated- the PAS is not completely rebuilt
In
a mixed environment of Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 domain controllers,
- Do the Windows 2000 domain controllers rebuild
their global catalog partitions?
- Do the Windows Server 2003 domain controllers not rebuild their global catalog
partitions?
What is
the definitive algorithm?
Alan A Isham
Messaging and Active Directory Engineering
Intel Corporation in Folsom, California
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