Domain Trust Between Two Forests
Building a cross forest trust permits a trust to be established between the root domain of two forests and any child domain in either forest can have access to resources in the other forest without an explicit trust as windows 2000 required.
Domain trust between two forests. There are lots of reasons why you might want to create forest level trusts. All pictures are from test my test lab and both domains are located at same vlan. Go to the approvals tab 1 and click on new approval 2 to launch the wizard. Let s explore this idea a little further with forests since transitive trusts flow between domains in two forests as well.
Video series on managing active directory infrastructure. In this step by step video guide we will see the steps to create a two way forest trust in windows. Forest approval 1 and click next 2. Two forest feta fi monae info in my case 2.
When launching the wizard click next 1. Let s say that forest a has a transitive trust relationship with forest b. Pre requirements for creating federation trusts are. Referring to microsoft in real world no communication occurs over the network between the account federation service and the resource federation service.
This would mean that all the domains in forest a have a transitive trust with all the domains in forest b and vice versa. A forest trust relationship between the two organizations active directory domain services is desired. Before the trust can be created name resolution needs to configured and tested for connectivity between the two domains. Indicate the domain 1 with which the trust relationship is made and click next 2.
As the name implies a forest level trust is a trust between two separate forests through which every domain trusts every other domain. There are so many reasons in fact that i could probably dedicate an entire article to the subject. Once the trust relationship is configured resource administrators will be able to configure permissions privileges and rights to the trusted forest users. A transitive trust has been created in this video between two differ.