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Create an Active Directory Resource Forest Trust

In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to build trust — trust between two servers in two different forests, that is! To do so, you will first create the environment, and then confirm its DNS settings.

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Path Info

Level

Intermediate

Duration

30m

Published

Jan 17, 2022

Challenge

Configure DNS for the New-VM Environment
Validate and configure the environment for New-VM in order to create the needed trust between corp.sandynetworking01.com and dev.sandynetworking01.com:
1. Confirm or create a dev.sandynetworking01.com forest.
2. Configure DNS to be able to access corp.sandynetworking01.com.
Challenge

Create a Trust Between the Servers
1. On the New-VM server, create a trust for corp.sandynetworking01.com with the following settings:
  - Forest trust
  - Two-way
  - This domain only
  - Forest-wide authentication
2. On the Main-VM server, repeat all the previous steps to configure DNS and create a trust for dev.sandynetworking01.com.
3. Confirm the trust was established successfully between the two servers in their separate forests.

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A Cloud Guru

The Cloud Content team comprises subject matter experts hyper focused on services offered by the leading cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure), as well as cloud-related technologies such as Linux and DevOps. The team is thrilled to share their knowledge to help you build modern tech solutions from the ground up, secure and optimize your environments, and so much more!

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