RE: design help

Hi DWL,

This sounds like a fine plan. You generally only want to have additional
domains if you have a really good reason to introduce the additional overhead
and maintenance burden. It doesn't sound like you need more than one. Other
than that, make sure you have declared all of your subnets and mapped them to
sites and you should be good. You'll also want to be sure to have a GC in
each site, but with the size of your domain, I don't see a reason not to make
all of them GCs.

Cheers,
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Ryan Hanisco
MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+
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Chicago, IL

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"DWL" wrote:

Hi all,
I have a small environment with 2 locations. Location 1, call it
headquarters (HQ) and location 2, call it production (prod).
In HQ, I plan to have 2 DC's and member servers running Exchange, IIS, etc.
In prod, I plan to also have 2 DC's and member servers running Exchange,
IIS, SQL, etc.
I wish to have all 4 DC's running DNS, and 1 DC at each site also running
DHCP.

I wish to have only 1 AD domain, MyCompany. I do not want to have subdomains
for HQ or Prod. HQ and prod will have different subnets.
I assume that I can set up different sites and subnets in AD Sites and
Domains.

First of all, is this a reasonable plan? Are there any problems with not
having sub-domains? Advantaegs? Disadvantages?
Assuming this is an OK plan, how does one go about setting up the DNS for
this?
I have the first DC (for HQ) set up and running DNS and DHCP. I wish to set
up the first DC at the Prod site right now. Do I configure it's DNS server as
a secondary zone administrator, then install AD?

Thanks,
David



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