Personally, I'd migrate everyone into one domain unless there is a VERY strong business case not to do so. The overhead of multiple domain management becomes pretty big with what amounts to multiple forest management and cross forest trusts.
Roger ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 12:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] User experience roaming Multiple Domains > in a single forest > > > > > We are considering expanding the scope our Active Directory > to include a > sister company. And with the doubling of our user population > and sites, we > are considering a multiple domain scenario. > > Beyond the security, risk mitigation and bandwidth control > benefits, I am > trying to get a handle on what would be lost from a user > standpoint when > roaming from a site where they have a DC in their home > domain, to a site > that has DC's that belong to another domain in the forest. > > If you know of any reading that would help clarify the points > on the issue > please send me a link or recommendation. > > The logon process should use DNS to find a DC, but it will > find that no > DC's for that domain exist in the site the client is in. So > a non optimal > DC will be chosen, unless I configure DNS records for a > preferred DC for > that domain for that site (seems like a hideous > administration load unless > automated). > > The user will authenticate to the non optimal DC, and run GPO's, logon > scripts, and roaming profiles from that DC. (Am I missing anything?). > Profiles have a slow link control, that can manage that part > of the user > experience. Are there any other caveat's? > > Thanks in advance for responses to such a trivial question. > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
