Empty Root Domain

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From: bumba (bumbaahi_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: 6 Sep 2004 09:30:34 -0700

Hello everybody,

I am installing (trying to) a new Domain Controller on a powerfull
computer.
My company has several branches, geographically apart from each other.

I want to give those branches the control of their own domain, and
also I will have my own domain.

We (me and the other branches) will have a domain name like:
  -branch1.mycorp.com
  -branch2.mycorp.com
  -branch3.mycorp.com, etc, etc

I am branch1. Problem, How do I install the first domain controller ?

When asked by the FQDN (following the active directory wizard), should
I try:
  machineonbranch1.branch1.mycorp.com ?
If I do that, then my root forest will be branch1.mycorp.com, and not
mycorp.com as I wanted to be ?

I don't want to waste a good machine only to be an empty domain
controller of mycorp.com, I want that machine to be the domain
controller of branch1 domain, but at the same time, I want that when
someone in branch2 creates his domain controller, he can use
branch2.mycorp.com and not branch2.branch1.mycorp.com.

Do I make any sense ? If not, this is a summary:
  forest domain: mycorp.com
  child domain 1: branch1.mycorp.com
  child domain 2: branch2.mycorp.com

domain controller of branch1: machineonbranch1

domain controller of branch2: machineonbranch2

machineonbranch1 is the first domain controller ever installed in my
company, which makes it the root domain controller, but I don't want
branch1.mycorp.com be the root domain of my company. Any way to do
that?

Thanks a lot for your inputs,

Regards,
Tommy

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