In two previous articles (here and here) I shared some classic Active Directory mistakes people have made that got their companies into serious trouble. Here’s another mistake that on the face of it ...

We setup a new child domain. On the parent domain controller, if you go to Active Directory domains and trusts and go to the child domain, it says "You cannot modify domain or trust information ...

In Windows Server, a child domain is a subdomain under a parent domain, inheriting policies and trust relationships. For example, if the parent domain is example.com, a child domain might be ...

To try and make my question a little more clear here is an example of a Windows 2000 native-mode forest that I'm referring to. Blue Triangle = Native mode Windows 2000 forest. 1 = Empty forest root ...