Vista - Access a different forest

I was interested to find out about accessing my domain's Directory Services through the New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry method, but how would I access another forest to which I have access permissions?

It depends on what you want to do. If you just want to access the AD users,
computers, etc in a domain inside another forest, you can just use the
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry object specifying the LDAP path for
the domain that you want to work with. For example,

$Entry = New-Object
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("LDAP://dc=otherdomain,dc=com")

$Entry = New-Object
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("LDAP://dc=childomain,dc=rootdomain,dc=com")

If you want to explore the structure of the other forest, you'll want to use
the System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory namespace, starting with

$Forest =
[System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Forest]::GetCurrentForest()

or

$ForestContext = New-Object
System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.DirectoryContext("Forest",
"otherdomain.com")
$OtherForest =
[System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Forest]::GetForest($ForestContext)

If you need to specify alternate credentials to access the forest, the
DirectoryContext constructor allows you to do that also.


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> I was interested to find out about accessing my domain's Directory
> Services through the New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry
> method, but how would I access another forest to which I have access
> permissions?
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