Active Directory Domain Services Reference (2007 R2 Beta)

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The following sections describe changes made during Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) preparation, including the following:

• Schema extensions created during schema preparation (see Active Directory Domain Services Classes and Descriptions and Active Directory Domain Services Attributes and Descriptions)
  The Active Directory schema contains formal definitions of every object class that can be created in an Active Directory forest. The schema also contains formal definitions of every attribute that can exist on an Active Directory object. The Active Directory global catalog contains replicas of all the objects for the forest, along with a subset of the attributes for each object. This section describes the classes and attributes that Office Communications Server adds to AD DS.
• Global settings and objects, as well as universal service and administration groups created during forest preparation (see Changes Made by Forest Preparation)
• ACEs created on the domain root and built-in containers during domain preparation (see Changes Made by Domain Preparation)