Re: 2 DC's in single domain with 2 Vlans

Hello maki,

1. You have to plan your setup if you really need 2 domains or if one domain with 2 sites will be enough. Normally you need different domains in different forest when you have the need to create security boundaries. If this is one company one domain with 2 sites should be enough, this has nothing to do with the ip subnets you use, even in one domain with multiple sites you cna use different subnets without any problem.

2. If you have a mailserver in one domain in a forest and like to use it in another domain in the forest you have to run exchange /domainprep in the domain without exchange to prepare AD for the needed attributes.

So please clarify what you are trying to achive, either with one domain and 2 sites or 2 doamins in one forest or 2 forests with one domain each.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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I've got a question about this scenario: same company, two different
staff
groups: Staff A and Staff B. Each one is separated by different
vlans. So
one is on for instance 172.16.a.b network and the other is on a
192.168.16.a
network. They should not see each other at all. Now, if the domain is
called
company.com, can I assume that:
1. I can create 2 DC's with Active Directory - one for each group of
staff
and call them staffA.company.com and staffB.company.com? Remember
staffA is
on 172 network and staffB on 192...Oh, also - each server is also a
DHCP/DNS/Printer/Antivirus server as the company doesn't have enough
money to
follow Microsoft recommendations. I am trying to picture if I go to a
membr
of Staff A and want to join his computer to the domain - what do I
type in
the domain bit when joining the computer? company.com or
staffA.company.com?
Do I just let te ip address help direct the computer to the particular
DC?
How would I connect them to particular DC they should belong to? Or do
I need
to create parent site company.com and then child sites
staffA.company.com and
staffB.company.com?
2. If the 2 DC's can be within same domain as above initially thought
- what if I add a mail exchange server called mail and only want it to
be for StaffA (staffB have no need to use email server) - can I just
connect staffA.company.com to mail.company.com? I assume staff B will
not be able to see the mail server then?

Am new at all this so was just wondering.

Thanks.



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