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Why are you creating a multi-domain forest? There's very little reason to do so, and it significantly adds to the administrative overhead of managing the forest.<br />
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What business need do you perceive you will be meeting by configuring a multi-domain forest?
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Why are you creating a multi-domain forest? There's very little reason to do so, and it significantly adds to the administrative overhead of managing the forest.

What business need do you perceive you will be meeting by configuring a multi-domain forest?

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Hi Laura<br />
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These are the requirements given to us by their management. From what I understand, their IT Support will be run by different companies in the US and the UK, hence they would prefer to have two seperate child domains.<br />
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But I'm curious to know if we should place any users or objects in the domain root? Is this even possible?
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Hi Laura

These are the requirements given to us by their management. From what I understand, their IT Support will be run by different companies in the US and the UK, hence they would prefer to have two seperate child domains.

But I'm curious to know if we should place any users or objects in the domain root? Is this even possible?

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Hi<br />
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One of our affiliates wants a seperate domain/forest, so we're looking into their structure.<br />
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It will be a root of company.com, with child domains of company.us.com and company.uk.com<br />
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Is it possible/advisable to have users and other objects in the domain root? Or should they all be located in the child domains?
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Hi

One of our affiliates wants a seperate domain/forest, so we're looking into their structure.

It will be a root of company.com, with child domains of company.us.com and company.uk.com

Is it possible/advisable to have users and other objects in the domain root? Or should they all be located in the child domains?

Users in root domain?

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