Creating a New Domain Tree within an Existing Forest

Lastly, we will promote the same machine to be domain controller, hosting a new tree within an existing forest. The existing domain is ed770dom.raleigh.ibm.com. Our choices are shown in Table 2-2.

Table 2-2. Domain controller promotion possibilities
Promote to Explanation
Member domain controller This is simply another domain controller in the ed770dom.raleigh.ibm.com domain.
New tree Here we have to invent a new domain name. We will choose ed770adom and it will live in the raleigh.ibm.com domain. Machines living in this tree will be addressed just like ed770: ed770.ed770adom.raleigh.ibm.com
New forest A forest is a new name space. We will use the same domain name and machine name, but it will ...

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