Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

Hierarchical naming structures

In Chapter 1, Active Directory Fundamentals, we looked into domain trees and explored how they can be used to organize the domain structure in the hierarchical method. DNS allows you to translate that logical structure into the domain namespace. Similar to a tree, it starts from the root and is spread into different layers, such as branches and leaves. In the domain tree, the root is represented by a dot (.). A typical tree branch contains many leaves. In the domain tree, a branch represents a collection of named resources, and a leaf in a branch represents a single named entry. In a tree, branches and leaves depend on each other. Branches or leaves are part of one system until everything is attached together. ...