Active Directory, 5th Edition by Brian Desmond Joe Richards Robbie Allen & Alistair G. Lowe-Norris

Author:Brian Desmond, Joe Richards, Robbie Allen & Alistair G. Lowe-Norris [Brian Desmond, Joe Richards, Robbie Allen & Lowe-Norris, Alistair G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: COMPUTERS / System Administration / Windows Administration
ISBN: 9781449320003
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Published: 2013-04-12T07:00:00+00:00

Arrange the subdomain hierarchy

You now have a forest root domain with a valid DNS name. You may have other domains that act as the roots of separate trees in the same forest; you may even have extra forest root domains representing separate forests entirely. Now you need to lay out the domain tree hierarchies. If you have a number of remaining domains listed on your sheet of paper from step 1, these are the subdomains that will form your domain-tree hierarchy.

Start with the first forest. Representing each domain with a triangle on the paper, arrange the domains in a hierarchical fashion beneath one of the domain tree roots in the forest. Name each domain appropriately, according to its position in the hierarchy. Repeat this process for all domains in this forest, then move on to the next forest (if necessary) and repeat.

For example, if we have cohovines.com as a tree root, and the North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions all need separate domains, we can call them northamerica.cohovines.com, europe.cohovines.com, and asiapacific.cohovines.com. If the Asia-Pacific region needs a separate domain for Japan, we’ll arrange this domain beneath AsiaPacific, as japan.asiapacific.cohovines.com.