In your situation, there's no good reason to use subdomains within AD - they are significantly higher overhead for no real benefit.
Rather, build OUs for the sites, and truly centralize the infrastructure. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 1:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] Remote network AD setup > > > We have an head office running an AD based network. We have several > smaller satellite offices running workgroup based networks. > > We now need to integrate all the offices into one AD so that users can > move able with the same logons, and that all the AD management and > maintainance can be done from one place. > > I was thinking of settup up the smaller offices as child > domains of the > main one, so small_office1.mydomain.com etc, which, as I > understand it, > should allow me to manage all the user accounts from one place. I was > also going to have a GC at each small office so that they can still > logon etc if the lines are disconnected. > > The question I have though is (maybe) a simple one. How do I setup the > DNS so that the DCPROMO applet in each satellite office will work ? > Currently the sites are connected via VPN, and each satellite > office has > forward and reverse DNS entries pointing to the Head Offices domain > (using the internal IP's). However, when we enter the domain into the > domain section of the DCPROMO applet, it barfs a lung. > > I know that im missing something, or coming at this the wrong > way, but I > have no idea where to start. If you could help that would be great. > > Olly > 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/
