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Hi,<br />
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Our parent company is in France and we are planning to either join the existing forest as a new domain tree or as a child domain to the existing parent domain. &nbsp;<br />
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I was wondering 2 things here:<br />
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1) &nbsp;Which option will provide the least replication between domains and if so should sites be configured in each domain to replicate between each other?<br />
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2) &nbsp;What are the pros and cons of being a child domain as opposed to a new tree in the existing forest?<br />
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Thanks<br />
<br />
DE<br />
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Hi,

Our parent company is in France and we are planning to either join the existing forest as a new domain tree or as a child domain to the existing parent domain.  

I was wondering 2 things here:

1)  Which option will provide the least replication between domains and if so should sites be configured in each domain to replicate between each other?

2)  What are the pros and cons of being a child domain as opposed to a new tree in the existing forest?

Thanks

DE



Replication between parent and child domain

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