Deploying Read-Only Domain Controllers

A concept introduced in Windows Server 2008, and supported in Windows Server 2012 is the read-only domain controller (RODC) server role. RODCs, as their name implies, hold read-only copies of forest objects in their directory partitions. This role was created to fill the need of branch office or remote site locations, where physical security might not be optimal and storing a read/write copy of directory information is ill advised.

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