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NEW How do I determine total number of Active Directory Forests in an enterprise?

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I heard that theoretically we could port scan global network for TCP 3268 i.e identifying all Global Catalog Domain Controllers(DCs). So my questions are:

  1. How Global Catalog servers is correlated with total number of Active Directory Forests in an enterprise and how can I tell number of forests by identifying all Global Catalog servers? Please elaborate this method.
  2. Is there any alternative/automated/practical way to answer this question without checking network documentation and AD design documents or interviewing?
Kindly answer with explanation specific to above mentioned questions.
 

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