New Trust Features in Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2003 offers the following trust-related features:

  • A new trust wizard. Both sides of the trust can be created in one operation. You must have credentials from both parties in the proposed trust relationship.

  • Incoming Forest Trust builders. A new group that can create inbound forest trusts. There are no members in this group by default.

  • Trust over firewalls is possible using a reduced number of ports.

  • Users can now use the User Principal Name (UPD) format (user@usersdomain.com) for authentication even when logging on from another forest.

  • Trusts enable the use of Microsoft Identity Integration Server services to synchronize data such as global address and public folders, directory objects, PKI ...

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