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Your company has a main office and a branch office. The network contains an Active Directory forest. The forest contains three domains. The branch office contains one domain controller named DC5…
The correct answer is D. On DC5, stop the Active Directory Domain Services service. The first step in maintaining the Active Directory database (ie, compacting) is to first bring down Active Directory services on that computer, as it locks the ntds.ditfile containing the Active Directory database. This was traditionally done only by rebooting a computer in…
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Your company has a main office and a branch office. The network contains an Active Directory forest. The forest contains three domains. The branch office contains one domain controller named DC5. DC5 is configured as a global catalog server, a DHCP server, and a file server. You remove the global catalog from DC5. You need to reduce the size of the Active Directory database on DC5. The solution must minimize the impact on all users in the branch office. What should you do first?
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- AStart DC5 in Safe Mode.
- BStart DC5 in Directory Services Restore Mode.
- COn DC5, start the Protected Storage service.
- DOn DC5, stop the Active Directory Domain Services service.
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(60 responses)- A15% (9)
- B5% (3)
- C10% (6)
- D70% (42)
Explanation
The first step in maintaining the Active Directory database (ie, compacting) is to first bring down Active Directory services on that computer, as it locks the ntds.ditfile containing the Active Directory database. This was traditionally done only by rebooting a computer in DSRM, but this would not minimize impact on users for DC5 as it also operates the DHCP and file server roles. Server 2008 added the ability to manage AD as a service, which would only bring down AD but would not impact the DHCP and file server roles. Safe Mode does not provide access to directory services restoration and would not minimize impact to the network. Protected Storage provides applications with an interface to store user data that must be kept secure or free from modification. (MY NOTE: In other words, it is used for setting up data that is not going to be changed. It is not used for AD, and as the referenced article also points out, it was only forServer 2003 / XP)
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