[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]
Best Practice (Designed for Microsoft® Windows® Logo)
Your application should both publish global configuration information to a product-specific DS object created in the Configuration/Services container and obtain global configuration information from the Configuration/Services container.
This container is replicated to every Domain Controller in the enterprise. It is the preferred way to establish enterprise-wide configuration defaults for applications.
For more information about Windows NT 5.0 Directory Services, see http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/info/directoryservices.htm.