What are the differences between NT 4.0 and 2000 domains?

John Savill

May 17, 2000

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A. Domain implementation in Windows 2000 was basically written fromthe ground up with its directory service roots and the table below shows themajor differences:

Feature

Windows NT 4

Windows 2000 mixed-mode

Windows 2000 native-mode

Number of objects

40,000 (20,000 recommended)

40,000 (20,000 recommended)

1,000,000 although 4,000,000 has been listed

Multimaster replication

No

Yes

Yes

Group types

Global, Local

Global, Domain Local

Universal, Global, Domain Local

Nested groups

No

No

Yes

Cross-domain administration

Limited

Limited

Full

Password filters

Manually installed with SP2 and above

Manually installed

Automatically installed

Queries using desktop change/configuration management

No

2000 DC's only

Yes

Authentication protocols

NTLM

NTLM, Kerberos

Kerberos (but NTLM supported for NT 4 and Windows 9x clients)

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