I just created my first... forest?

[D3K]

Decided to upgrade my home server to a DC so I could tinker with AD and learn a few bits. Couldn't create a domain because there was no "forest".

I've never once in my entire career heard of the term "forest". As far as I knew, domains were the top level and could be connected to each other. I thought I was fairly savvy with IT and if I hadn't at least heard of the name then it was because it was niche or pretty deep down the rabbit hole.

Is the term new or is there a reason no one verbalises the word?

Since choosing a *.local forest I have access to AD. Does the forest act like a domain in my network?

 

[D3K]

You've never heard of an AD forest? But you work in IT?

Scary stuff.

Get learning about forest roots, trees, child domains...

I'm more engineering than IT and have no need to learn such stuff. My interaction with servers is to put data management software on and configure, so everything has always been set up by the IT dept. I've been to a lot of companies and never once heard it being mentioned. Clearly above my security level

I only first touched AD last week when the IT guy disappeared and we needed a user added to a group. Hence my intrigue at home.

 

[D3K]

Then don't make statements like this:



AD is hardly "deep down the rabbit hole".

Learn to read. The context is towards forests. I've known of AD since I started working with servers, I just steered clear because I thought I couldn't handle the excitement.