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This is an update to a post I made about a year ago to help you choose the AD store OCS uses for global settings. 
 
Quick note on terminology
Active Directory has three stores often referred to as Naming Contexts –Schema, Domain and Configuration.  The Schema and Configuration Naming Contexts are replicated to every domain controller in the Forest.  The Domain Naming Context is replicated only to its Domain Controllers.  In OCS documentation we typically refer to the Domain Naming Context as the System container in the root domain and the Configuration Naming Context as the Configuration Partition.  Given this you can see that for a single Domain Forest this topic has no relevance to you and you should move on to a more interesting blog post J
 
LCS stored its configuration in the Domain Naming Context or System Container.  OCS 2007 added a choice to use the Configuration Naming Context or [...]