Global Catalog Partitions

Recently a question came up in the newsgroups about what the difference is between the set of partitions on a domain controller and the set of partitions on a global catalog server.  I wanted to take the opportunity to include the answer here and expand upon it slightly. The question specifically was, “In a multi-domain environment, what is the main difference between the partitions on a domain controller that is also a global catalog server, versus other domain controllers that are ... [More]