Please note the following issue from 2002: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=319182
IE will not accept cookies from servers with invalid host names (e.g. they contain an underscore). So, you can use these names in the DNS, but if you are running a webserver at that address, you may have issues with your browser (if it's IE) Cheers Ken From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 September 2008 5:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: new computers "Jonathan Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/18/2008 03:25:05 PM: > DNS lookups. Underscores are not valid in DNS names. But they will work .. Z:\>nslookup admin_nt9 Server: admnwdc001.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov Address: 10.64.7.53 Name: admin_nt9.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov Address: 10.64.13.3 In Win2000 AD. This is internal only, of course. > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Second question. Anyone know what could break using underscores in PC > naming? i.e. loc_pcname > > Joe Heaton > > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:45 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: new computers > > I've done it both ways. I usually try to have the AD objects created > first. > > If you create the AD object first the machine will get the right GPOs > right off the bat. It's less work that way, especially if you use > software installation GPOs. The machine is 100% ready to go sooner. > > Joe Heaton wrote: > > When you guys build new PCs, do you create the AD object first, or > > simply join the domain from the PC afterwards? I've always created > the > > PC, then joined the domain, but our desktop guy just mentioned that > our > > manager wanted him to create the AD object first. My first instinct > is > > to say no, because then you're creating an AD object for something > that > > doesn't exist yet, but other than that, I didn't have a real reason. > > Anyone have a better reason? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
