Understanding Domain Trusts

Domain trusts across forests used to require individual, explicitly defined trusts for each domain. This created an exponential trust relationship, which was difficult, to say the least, to manage. Windows Server 2003 and later versions took the trust relationship to a new level of functionality, with transitive trusts supplying automatic paths “up and down the forest tree.” These trusts are implicitly easier to understand and troubleshoot, and have greatly improved the manageability of Windows networks.

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