Forests, Trees and Domains
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Windows Domain
- A collection of objects that represent real assets
- Logical administrative unit that represents:
- Users
- Groups
- Computers
- Other Objects
Windows tree
- Collection of domains that share a root domain
- Have a contiguous namespace
- Domain.com
- sub.domain.com
- test.domain.com
Windows Forest
- A Forest is one or more domains or domain trees which do not share a contiguous namespace
- Domain.com
- Domainb.com
- BUT, these domains:
- Share a common schema
- Have a two-way trust established
- Windows Forests are always present – even if there are no Trees
- A forest contains ONE or more domains
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