Forest Level Roles
First Server in the forest performs all the 5 roles by default. and later we can transfer the roles.
- Domain Naming Master
- Schema Master
- PDC emulator
- RID master
- Infrastuctue master
First Server in the forest performs all the 5 roles by default. and later we can transfer the roles.
- Domain naming master :- one for the forest. Domain naming master is responsible for making changes to the forest wide domain name space of the directory. Domain Creations and Deletions must g through this domain controller.
- Schema master :- one for the forest. schema contains set of classes and attributes Ex: User, Computer, Printer, are the object in Active Directoy which re having their own set of attritubes. schema master is responsible for maintaing the schema. it control all update and modifications in the forest.
- PDC emultor :- this role is responsible for time synchronization in the forest server. which is performing this role will contain latest password information, password logins attemts and password changes informtion.
- Infrastucture master :- is responsible for managing group membership information in the domain like. reference update from its domain objects to other domain objetcs. and also responsible for updating when name or location of the object is modified.
- RID Master - Relative identifier : - this server will provide pool of RID to other Domain controller in the domain. where SID is securtiy identifier commo for all objects in the domain and RID is relative unique for each object.