Q.What are the Features of AD ?What are the diff roles of AD ?(FsmO)?

Flexible Single-Master Operation (FSMO) roles,manage anaspect of the domain or forest, to

prevent conflicts

1. Domain Naming Master, If you want to add a domain to aforest, the domain?s name must
be verifiably unique. The forest?s Domain Naming Master FSMOs authorize the domain
name operation.

2. Infrastructure Master, When a user and group are in different domains, a lag can exist
between changes to the user (e.g., a name change) and the user?s display in the group. The
Infrastructure Master of the group?s domain fixes the group-to-user reference to reflect the
change. The Infrastructure Master performs its fixes locally and relies on replication to bring all
other replicas of the domain up to date.

3. PDC Emulator, For backward compatibility, one DC in each Win2K domain must emulate a
PDC for the benefit of Windows NT 4.0 and NT 3.5 DCs and clients.

4. RID Master, The RID Master must be available for you to use the Microsoft Windows 2000
Resource Kit?s Movetree utility to move objects between domains.

5. Schema Master, At the heart of Active Directory (AD) is the schema, which is like a blueprint
of all objects and containers. Because the schema must be the same throughout the forest, only
one machine can authorize schema modifications.