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3.1.1.6 Background Tasks

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In AD DS, the server runs background tasks periodically to:

  • Protect security principals that have elevated administrative privilege.

  • Maintain referential integrity (see Referential integrity in section 3.1.1.1) on object references.

  • Maintain security descriptor requirements (see Security Descriptor Requirements in section 6.1.3).

  • Query and persist domain information about trusting forests (see section 3.1.1.6.4).

    Note: Features and tasks related to querying and persisting domain information about trusting forests described in this section are also supported in Windows 11, version 22H2 operating system and later operating systems.

These periodic tasks are specified in the following sections.