Windows Server 2008 R2: How to Create Two Way Transitive Trust

Let’s see how to build a “Two way Transitive Trust“ You need to have a proper DNS resolution working two way.

There are different types of trusts, Am going to explain only about “Two way Transitive Trust“ where both the organizations will have all the permissions over the organizations

This will be the Initial Step if your going to do a cross forest migration between Exchange forests

Source domain – Careexchange.in

Target Domain –TargetExchange.in

Start-Administrative Tools –> Active Directory Domains and Trusts

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Click on “New Trust”

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Am Typing the “Netbios” name of the Target forest

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Click on Forest Trust

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Click on “Two-way” as we are going to setup – Two way Transitive Trust

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Click on “Both this domain and the Specified domain”

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Type the Target domain Administrator Credentials

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Click on “Forest-Wide Authentication”

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Choose “Yes”

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Choose “Yes”

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You can see the trusts has been created

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After Creation “ Click on Validate to verify the Trusts”

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Enter the Target domain Credentials

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Its always good to validate the trusts , as a confirmation , that we did the right thing

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Now you can see the Trusts populated in the target domain

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