Create an Active Directory Resource Forest Trust

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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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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 24, 2025

Duration

30m

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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