spring_vista

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• Mar 13th, 2008

 

Every domain controller has a shared folder in its local file system that is the file system component of Active Directory. This shared folder, named SYSVOL, contains files and folders that must be available and synchronized between domain controllers in a domain, including:

•	The NETLOGON shared folder, which includes system policies and user-based logon and logoff scripts for non-Windows Server 2003 and non-Windows 2000 network clients, such as clients running Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0.
•	Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 system policies.
•	Group Policy settings (templates), including Group Policy settings for domain controllers running Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000.

When you add, remove, or modify the contents in the SYSVOL shared folder, FRS replicates the changed contents to the SYSVOL shared folders on all other domain controllers in the domain.

Tcowles1

 Profile Answers by Tcowles1 

• Jul 18th, 2008

 

%systemroot%SYSVOLSysvol

nithinsadu

 Profile Answers by nithinsadu 

• Nov 12th, 2008

 

The sysVOL folder stores the server's copy of the domain's public files. The contents such as group policy, users etc of the sysvol folder are replicated to all domain controllers in the domain. The sysvol folder must be located on an NTFS volume.

Pravin Bargode

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• Jun 30th, 2011

 

Sysvol isa special folder located on NTFS partition of DC for storing domain public files like logon script, GPO templates etc. The contents of sysvol folder are are replicated to all DC in a domain.

Arunkumar

• Sep 20th, 2011

 

All active directory data base security related information store in SYSVOL folder and its only created on NTFS partition.
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The Sysvol folder on a Windows domain controller is used to replicate file-based data among domain controllers. Because junctions are used within the Sysvol folder structure, Windows NT file system (NTFS) version 5.0 is required on domain controllers throughout a Windows distributed file system (DFS) forest.

This is a quote from Microsoft themselves, basically the domain controller info stored in files like your group policy stuff is replicated through this folder structure

Augustinprabhu

• Dec 14th, 2011

 

All database of active directory stored in sysvol folder & its only created on NTFS partition
The Active Directory Database is Stored in %SYSTEM ROOT%NDTS folder

Suresh Hegde

• Mar 8th, 2012

 

It is a System Volume folder its only created on NTFS partition of the Active Directory Database. It contains GPO templates and logon scripts.

sunilbaglur

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• May 14th, 2013

 

SYSVOL folder used to store a copy of the domain’s public files like system policies, Group Policy settings and logon/logoff scripts, which are replicated to all other domain controllers in the Active Directory domain through File Replication Services (FRS), You can find many folders inside the SYSVOL share, I would like to explore and explain each folder by how it’s used in the process of SYSVOL replication.