Mark, I'm in the same place you are: single forest, single domain, but 30 DCs in a global deployment with 45k users and 37k computers. Ran that way for 6 years.
Now we've sold off a business unit of a couple thousand users and they outsourced to a big 3rd party service provider who insisted they go with an empty root. I recommended against it, but the sourcer (whose initials are E.D.S.) claimed the configuration was supported by Microsoft and they that had run it by Microsoft for "approval." I think what it boils down to is that this is their standard service and that's that. The guys I'm working with are quite knowledgeable and good at what they do, but they're the front line people and not the deep-thinking architects we find at DEC. AL Al Maurer Service Manager, Naming and Authentication Services IT | Information Technology Agilent Technologies (719) 590-2639; Telnet 590-2639 http://activedirectory.it.agilent.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 7:37 AM To: ActiveDir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification Does anyone have any official documentation as to the justification for a root place holder, pro's and con's ? Where I am - I have started at one domain and can see no reason to expand on that - they only have 6 DC's now in a single domain - yet the partner they have chosen is recomending a root place holder with 5 DC's and then 8 in the child domain (they are NOT even supplying the tin) and I wanted some decent amo - a little bit stronger than schema and Ent admin separation. I know at DEC the concensus was the desire to eliminate and I believe Guido and Wook have stated this for the past two DEC's I have searched this list and can find no relevant articles. Many thanks Regards Mark List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
