1 site multi domains

All replies

• 

  

  0

  Sign in to vote

  Not sure which diagram you are talking about here.

  Site is a global configuration for entire forest. You can have multiple domains/DCs in the same site.

  ---

  Santhosh Sivarajan | Houston, TX
  http://www.sivarajan.com/
  
  
  
  This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties,and confers no rights.

  
  

  • Edited by Santhosh Sivarajan-MVP Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:29 PM
  • Proposed as answer by Meinolf Weber Thursday, March 29, 2012 5:23 PM

  Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:16 PM
• 

  

  0

  Sign in to vote

  You can have multiple domain in the same subnet/site and there is no issue. Domain joined machine uses srv records in DNS to locate the DC using mechanism called dclocator process. So, there is no issue using multiple domain in the same subnet. The scenario can be multiple business unit at the same location and each group of users login to different domain. You can use same subnet for the multiple domain but mostly different subnet is used.

  http://blogs.technet.com/b/arnaud_jumelet/archive/2010/07/05/domain-controller-locator-an-overview.aspx

  ---

  Awinish Vishwakarma - MVP-DS

  My Blog: awinish.wordpress.com

  Disclaimer This posting is provided AS-IS with no warranties/guarantees and confers no rights.

  • Proposed as answer by Meinolf Weber Thursday, March 29, 2012 5:23 PM

  Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:27 PM
• 

  

  0

  Sign in to vote

  cannot find the artile anymore but got the picture(saved it eearlier).

  picture can be found here:

  http://imgur.com/55NIC

  I mdont use imageshack because you need to create an account these days. Dont want that.

  Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:51 PM
• 

  

  0

  Sign in to vote

  As stated earlier, you can have multiple domain DC deployed into single site or subnet.

  ---

  Awinish Vishwakarma - MVP-DS

  My Blog: awinish.wordpress.com

  Disclaimer This posting is provided AS-IS with no warranties/guarantees and confers no rights.

  Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:55 PM
• 

  

  0

  Sign in to vote

  okay, but why or/and when should i use one site with multiple domains? I still cant figure out why you should have multiple business units with different domains like your example.

  Thursday, March 29, 2012 5:00 PM
• 

  

  0

  Sign in to vote

  Hello,

  of for whatever reason you need separate forests in your company and do not have the option for other designs, hardware, locations etc.

  ---

  Best regards

  Meinolf Weber
  MVP, MCP, MCTS
  Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
  My Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/mweber/

  Disclaimer: This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties or guarantees and confers no rights.

  • Marked as answer by enlil Saturday, March 31, 2012 9:24 AM

  Thursday, March 29, 2012 5:24 PM
• 

  

  0

  Sign in to vote

  You can use single domain multiple site architecture or multiple domain as per business requirement.
  
  

  One best practice is to try and limit the number of domains.I would recommend to have single domain multiple site architecture.Create OU to manage the departments and assign appropiate delegation control.Avoid having a multi-domain.

  Make all the DCs global catalogs and also install DNS role on it.

  Also ensure you have altleast two DC in the environment  for redanduncy.

  There are the infrastructure planning and design guides:
  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD3921FB-8224-4681-9064-075FDF042B0C&displaylang=en
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727085.aspx

  Best Practise for Designing Organizational Unit and Group Structure:
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc785903(WS.10).aspx
  http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=98126

  For drawings the AD topology diagrammer is a great tool:
  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cb42fc06-50c7-47ed-a65c-862661742764&displaylang=en

  Hope this helps

  ---

  Best Regards,
  
  Sandesh Dubey.
  
  MCSE|MCSA:Messaging|MCTS|MCITP:Enterprise Adminitrator | My Blog
  
  Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.

  • Proposed as answer by AjayKumar sharma Thursday, March 29, 2012 11:45 PM
  • Marked as answer by enlil Saturday, March 31, 2012 9:24 AM

  Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:53 PM
• 

  

  0

  Sign in to vote

  thanks all

  Saturday, March 31, 2012 9:24 AM