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| forest root domain | domaine racine de forêt (The first domain created in a new forest. The forest-wide administrative groups, Enterprise Admins and Schema Admins, are located in this domain. As a best practice, new domains are created as children of the forest root domain) |
| root domain | domaine racine (The beginning of the Domain Name System (DNS) namespace. In Active Directory, the initial domain in an Active Directory tree) |