Re: Empty Root Domain required?

In that case adding an empty root doesn't really do anything for you. There isn't a domain prune/graft capability so you will follow the same migration process to get into the corporate forest with a single domain as you would with an empty root.

In general, you want to stick to a single domain as possible, many MSFT apps are just designed to run that way. It isn't that they won't run in multidomain environments but you will often find half-assed things you have to do or some functionality that just doesn't work right.



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Beno wrote:
Hello
I want to setup a new AD (Win2k3) for my subsidiary company. We are autonomous from the our overseas parent company, and the parent company does not have a "global AD structure" at this point. I was proposing to create an empty root domain in my new local forest, and then have my "production domain" as a child domain off the empty root domain. If, in the future, the parent company created a new global AD that we, as a subsidiary needed to be part of, I thought I could "cross-migrate" my child production domain straight into the parent "global AD forest" off their root domain. Is this a good idea, or is the empty child domain in my local forest simply a waste of resources?
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