The default link name is Default first site
Domain Controller
Default Domain Policy and Default Domain Controller Policy
object classes and attributes
Domain Users.
Active Directory cannot be installed on systems that aren't Microsoft. However, you can have Active Directory functionality on non-Microsoft systems by using third party software such as Samba, which runs in a Unix/Linux environment and provides the Active Directory functionality.
Active Directory Explorer was created on 2007-07-09.
No, you do not. You only install Active Directory if the system is going to be a domain controller. If it is a member server or a standalone server Active Directory should not be installed.
transitive with bridging enabled.
User's last 6 passwords
a PIN
User files are never created during dc promotion, only database file is created at default %systemroot%\ntds.dit ntds.ini is created during the promotion of the dcpromo
program file in c:\ drive