Patent ID: 7614015

Claim:
In a computing environment, a method comprising: providing a user interface; determining whether there is a forest bidirectional trust between a user forest and a selected forest; if it is determined that there is a forest bidirectional trust between the user forest and the selected forest, presenting, in response to the determination that there is forest bidirectional trust between the user forest and the selected forest, the representation of the selected forest and representations of selected domains associated with the selected forest in the user interface; if it is determined that there is not a forest bidirectional trust between the user forest and the selected forest, determining, in response to the determination that there is not forest bidirectional trust between the user forest and the selected forest, whether there is an external bidirectional trust between a user domain associated with the user forest and a selected domain associated with the selected forest; if it is determined that there is an external bidirectional trust between a user domain associated with the user forest and a selected domain associated with the selected forest domain, presenting, in response to the determination that there is external bidirectional trust between the user domain associated with the user forest and the selected domain associated with the selected forest domain, the representation of the selected forest and representations of the selected domains associated with the selected forest in the user interface, and presenting a representation of at least one object associated with the selected forest; and detecting interaction with the user interface, and in response, performing an operation to a selected object associated with the selected forest.