Growing a Forest

The definition of a Forest is a set of domain trees that shares a common schema and Global Catalog (GC) but does not share a common namespace. For example, the root domain of one tree might be Wadeware.net and the root of another tree might be wadewarewidgets.net. The two trees share a common schema and GC as long as the second tree was initially created by joining the Wadeware.net Forest (see Figure 11.5).

Figure 11.5. A Forest consists of two separate domain trees, which share a common schema, GC, and security context. The two trees do not share a common namespace. In the preceding example, Wadeware.net and wadewarewidgets.net are separate trees that are part of the same Forest.

Keeping in mind the definition of a ...

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