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What is a Forest?

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by rob1150

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I know this has to sound like a newbie question, but over the weekend I was reading a brochure for the new Windows 2003 Server NOS and I saw mention of Forests. I have been looking all over the net for a definitive explanation. ??

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by mallardtooxx

A forest is the logical grouping system inside the NOS. There are trees, like the one you see when you explore your c drive. The trees can be grouped into organizational units which are called OU's. The OU can have many trees inside it. If you get multiple OU's then you have many many trees and that is a forest.

check webopedia.com they have explanations that are rather vanilla like the one I just gave. They prolly have something about Forests in there too.

Have fun

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by mallardtooxx

I was just joking about the heckle and jeckle thing I just remember an episode where heckle kept saying stop calling me shirley.....Very, very obscure reference there.

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by jkaras

Hehehe I was actually quoting the mother of all movies, "Airplane". Classic humor at its finest. I used to watch Heckle and Jeckle myself when I was younger, to tell you the truth I think I've watched just about every cartoon growing up regardless of the content. the greatest cheezy cartoons were the Hanna Barbera ones with the worst sound effects, I couldnt get enough of I'm. A really strange cartoon out right now is Sea lab that has the artistic value of Hanna making fun of everything, it's hilarious.

by hal 9000

Its Microsofts defenition for a computer network that has a number of servers servicing a part of an organisation that are down line from more servers and so on. Unless you keep up with what MS is putting out it will get a bit confusing as they havethe habit of changing their termonolgy from time to time. However this one has been out since the introduction of Windows 2000 Server and isn't all that new.

by vegatecgroup

MS has made references to branches, trees, and forests over the years. There must be a botanist working at the upper levels of MS somewhere. All references were intended as a description for their various networking schemes. Basically, look at it asthe bigger the the reference size may imply, the larger the network.

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