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What is Organizational Units ?
The Organizational Unit (OU)is a critical design factor impacting security, policy, efficiency, and the cost of administration. Organizational Units are a type of LDAP (X.500) container. It can be thought of as a sub-domain element with similar properties to domains. They are components internal to domains. OUs are part of the LDAP name space and not the DNS namespace.
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Tell me about Infrastructure master?

The Infrastructure Master is used to maintain references to objects in other domains, known as phantoms.The Infrastructure Master is responsible for fixing up stale references from objects in its domain to objects in other domains. The Infrastructure Master FSMO role owner is used to continually maintain the phantoms whenever the objects they refer to are changed or moved in the object's domain.

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What is the purpose of replication in AD ?

The purpose of replication is to distribute the data stored within the directory throughout the organization for increased availability, performance, and data protection. Systems administrators can tune replication to occur based on their physical network infrastructure and other constraints.

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What is stale ?

Stale means references to objects that have been moved or renamed so that the local copy of the remote object's name is out of date .

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What is SID ?

Security Identifier (SID) is a unique, variable-length identifier used to identify a trustee or security principal.