Exploring a Special-Purpose Domain Real-World Design Example

CompanyE is a computer consulting firm headquartered in Morioka, Japan. Most consulting work is performed by full-time CompanyE employees; however, some outside contractors are brought in from time to time to help on projects. The company had already deployed AD DS for the internal organization, but was concerned about opening access to the forest for any nonemployees of the company. Consequently, a single domain AD DS implementation was created for the nonemployees to use. A cross-forest transitive trust was established between this domain and the internal forest, and access to resources such as file and print services were delegated and controlled by the central IT organization.

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