Mastering Active Directory

Setting up a new domain tree

Active Directory domain tree is a collection of domains which share a contiguous namespace. An Active Directory forest can have multiple domain trees which use different namespaces. In one forest, each of these domain trees have explicit trust among them by default. In this scenario, we are going to create a new domain tree in an existing Active Directory forest.

Before we start with the installation, we need to consider a few things:

• Environment setup: The new physical server or the VM which is going to be set up should have network reachability to the existing forest root domain. It can be in different network segments, but in order to add it to the existing forest, a connection is required. In order to proceed ...