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Microsoft's Andreas Luther confirmed Microsoft is planning to release a new major release of Windows Server every 4 years with an R2 release in between.
He also revealed some of the new features for Active Directory in Longhorn Server.
1. Read only DC. At first this sounds like the comeback of the BDC. It is indeed a read only copy of a read/write DC that does a one way copy.
The read-only DC is designed with a branch office model in mind. The read only DC will only authenticate clients from its own site and is less vulnerable for a physical attack.
2. DC/Domain Admin seperation. In Longhorn Server there will be a DC Admin and a separate Domain Admin. This means the DC Admin will not automatically have all privileges in the domain.
3. Restartable AD. AD will be implemented as an ordinary service that can be stopped on demand. This simplifies offline actions on the AD database and reduces the need for reboots.
4. DC on Server core. I'm not sure what this means, but we'll find out in the near future.
Try not to think of the Longhorn DC model as PDC\BDC but more along the lines of DNS, the read only domain controllers will be caching DC's containing only the information needed to perform the branch office functions. so if you don't use that Branch office, your details will not be cached.
Mark
if i recall
"DC on Server core. I'm not sure what this means, but we'll find out in the near future. "
means that the DC will be a bare bones server no gui, text based only and very limited foot print - a little bit like a unix system of old.