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14-11Lesson 1 Overview of Active Directory
Replication Within an Active Directory Site
Active Directory also includes a replication feature. Replication ensures that changes
to a domain controller are reflected in all domain controllers within a domain. To
understand replication, you must understand domain controllers. A domain controller
stores a replica of the domain directory. Each domain can contain one or more domain
controllers.
Within a site, Active Directory automatically generates a ring topology for replication
among domain controllers in the same domain. The topology defines the path for
directory updates to flow from one domain controller to another until all receive the
directory updates (see Figure 14-5).
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Figure 14-5 Within a site, replication between domain controllers happens automatically.