Active Directory Support Files
The ESE engine used by Active Directory is based on Microsoft's Jet database technology. Jet uses a b-tree file structure with transaction logs to ensure recoverability in the event of a system or drive failure.
When you promote a server to a domain controller, you select where to put the Active Directory files. The default path is in the boot partition under \Windows\NTDS. Generally, it is a good idea to put them on a separate volume from the operating system files to improve performance.
The following list contains the Active Directory support files and their functions:
Ntds.dit. This is the main AD database. NTDS stands for NT Directory Services. The DIT stands for Directory Information Tree. The Ntds.dit file ...
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