Restartable Active Directory Domain Services
Why would you want to use such a feature as Restartable AD DS? The first time I heard about it I was not convinced, but the more I thought about it the more I liked the idea. The benefit is that you will be able to perform some of the operations that usually required a restart of the DC, such as applying security updates without having to reboot your server! It will also let you stop AD DS to perform tasks such as offline defragmentation of the Active Directory database. The real benefit is that other services that are running on the server and do not depend on AD DS to function, such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), remain available for client requests while you are doing a security update ...
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