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What Resources can be published in Active Directory When you make  Active Directory  objects available to users, you are publishing the Active Directory resource. The resources that can be published in Active Directory include the Active Directory resources listed below: User objects Computer objects Printer objects Folders and files Network services The two primary published objects are printers and shared folders. Publishing information on shared network resources such as printers, folders, and files; eases the process of users locating these resources. Having resource information in Active Directory makes it easy to search for, and find a particular resource. You can use the Active Directory Users and Computers console to publish information on shared folders and printers in Active Directory. With Windows 2000 Active Directory, Windows 2000 network printers were automatically published in Active Directory. What this meant was that you only had to manually publish information o

The  Global Catalog  (GC) is an important component in  Active Directory  because it serves as the central information store of the Active Directory objects located in domains and forests. Because the GC maintains a list of the Active Directory objects in domains and forests without actually including all information on the objects and it is used when users search for Active Directory objects or for specific attributes of an object, the GC improves network performance and provides maximum accessibility to Active Directory objects. The Global Catalog server is the domain controller that stores a full copy of all objects in its host domain. It also stores a partial copy of all objects in all other domains within the forest. The partial copy holds the list of objects most frequently searched for. The first domain controller that is created in the first domain in a forest is by default the Global Catalog server. If a domain only has one domain controller, that particular domain controller