From the course: Windows Server 2025: Install and Configure Active Directory

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Understanding trust between domains

Understanding trust between domains

- [Instructor] All right. So we have installed a child domain within our parent domain of hplussport.local. And now, let's look at Active Directory Domains and Trust, just to understand what type of trust is between these two domains. So our parent domain is hplustrust.local, as you can see from this domain structure. At the top level, we are seeing hplussport.local. And then, now, we have a new child domain, which is the SFO domain. And the fully qualified name of this SFO domain is SFO.hplussport.local. So let's look at the properties of our top level domain on our forest first, so we go to the properties. And when we look at the trust, as you can see, that it is actually saying that it trusts the SFO domain. The trust type is Child, and it is transitive trust. And then, also, on the reverse, domains that trust this domain is SFO.hplussport.local. So that means the child domain also trust this parent domain. And the trust type is established by doing parent-child relationship. And…

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