Designing the forest structure
The Active Directory design starts with designing the forest structure. The Active Directory forest is the security boundary for the identity infrastructure. When you deploy the first domain controller in your infrastructure, it creates a forest as well. Every Active Directory infrastructure has at least one forest.
There are two types of forest implementations:
- Single forest
- Multiple forests
The type of the forest is decided based on many things, such as the size of the company, legal requirements, operation requirements, mergers and acquisitions, resource isolation, and so on.
Single forest
A single forest deployment is the default deployment mode. Most business models fit into the single forest model. The complexity and cost of implementation are low in this model. One of the main things you need to consider in this mode is replication. Domains are used to partition the directory and manage the replication. But...
