Where can I find doc's on Forests

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I'm trying to understand the concept of forests and what their purposes are.
Can someone please point me to any such type of documentation. I'm further
interested in how to created multiple forests within the same domain.

Thanks
 
I'm further interested in how to created multiple forests within the same
domain.
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Yes, you do need to read up on forests ;-)

It's the other way round. A forest contains domains (and/ or trees of
domains). The forest is the ultimate boundary. Within a forest you will
have hierarchy's of namespaces (trees).

For example,

domain-name.com
child-01.domain-name.com
child-02.domain-name.com

another.com
child-01.another.com

Two separate trees in a single forest. domain-name.com is the forest root;
another.com is connected to domain-name.com by a two-way transitive trust.

Trees are contiguous namespaces. Domains are...domains. Forests group them
all together. A single-domain is a single, flat, forest.

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I'm trying to understand the concept of forests and what their purposes are.
Can someone please point me to any such type of documentation. I'm further
interested in how to created multiple forests within the same domain.

Thanks
 
RP said:
I'm trying to understand the concept of forests
and what their purposes are.
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A groups of domains which automatically are
able to share resources, site/services configuration,
and schema.

(There are automatic trusts effectively between
every domain of the forest.)

Main purposes: Share resources -- while allowing
separate administration and security policies.
Can someone please point me to any such type of documentation. I'm further
interested in how to created multiple forests within the same domain.
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Search Google:

[ Forest 2003 | 2000 "active directory" site:microsoft.com ]

Domains make up trees, which make up forests.

A tree is just a group of domains with contiguous
DNS names -- that is all descending from a common
parent name.

Multiple trees (with different DNS names) allow a
forest to include domains with such names.
 
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