Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Understanding Explicit Trusts

Explicit trusts are those that are set up manually, similar to the way that Windows NT trusts were constructed. A trust can be set up to join two unrelated domain trees into the same forest, for example. Explicit trusts are one-way, but two explicit trusts can be established to create a two-way trust. In Figure 4.5, an explicit trust has been established between the companyabc domain and the companyxyz domain to join them into the same forest structure.

Figure 4.5. Explicit trust between two domain trees.

When an explicit trust is set up to expedite the flow of trusts from one subdomain to another, it is known as ...