Re: Empty Root Domain

From: Oli Restorick [MVP] (oli_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 21:33:26 +0100

Have you fully thought through the possibility of using OUs in a single
domain to achieve the same thing?

Investigate this first, because it will give you optimum use of hardware and
simplify your environment, while still allowing full delegation of control
of OUs.

The usual reason for creating a multi-domain forest is to allow different
password policies.

Regards

Oli

"bumba" <bumbaahi@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:7967e19c.0409060830.26e060dd@posting.google.com...
> 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

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Sites or Domains
    ... administrative requirements,Optimize replication traffic,Retain Microsoft ... Security principals As domains are added, ... Domain controller hardware and security facilities Each Windows Server ... catalog in the forest, preferably in the same Active Directory site. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
  • Re: Sites or Domains
    ... number 1 concern would you go single or multi domain. ... Replication, Wins Replication's Replication, etc. ... single Enterpise Win Nt4 strcutures to a W2K3 Single forest / ... Domain controller hardware and security facilities Each Windows Server ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
  • Re: Site or Domain
    ... Domain aren't security Boundaries, ... forest, and they are not themselves the ultimate security boundary. ... Each Active Directory domain is authoritative for the ... Domain controller hardware and security facilities Each Windows Server ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
  • Re: W2K3 DHCP, WINS
    ... I would use integrated DNS. ... every domain controller in domain. ... forest) you have... ... Installing Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and Domain Name System ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
  • Re: Sites or Domains
    ... In ref to the FSMO roles if survaivabilty within a location was the main ... Domain controller hardware and security facilities Each Windows Server ... catalog in the forest, preferably in the same Active Directory site. ... forest, the infrastructure master, if placed on a global catalog server, ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
Loading