Creating A Domain From Scratch Which Is Tied To An Internet Domain - Testing Exchange & Sharepoint
Hello All -
I've been working with this stuff for years, but haven't done this part. As a learning experience, I am creating a test enviroment with full domain and install Exchange and Sharepoint. This is just for learning so not critical.
In a VM, I have already installed Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard. All I have done so far is run updates. I've already got an internet domain (lets call it abc.com) registered with nothing else tied to it.
First, I'm creating the local domain. Should / can I use abc.com? I'm at the point now where I've run dcpromo and it's asking me for the FQDN. After I get all this set up, I should be good togo. Just didn't know if abc.com would work and if so, what should I put in for dcpromo's FQDN? local.abc.com, abc.com, abc123.com?
Thanks!
I've been working with this stuff for years, but haven't done this part. As a learning experience, I am creating a test enviroment with full domain and install Exchange and Sharepoint. This is just for learning so not critical.
In a VM, I have already installed Windows 2008 R2 x64 Standard. All I have done so far is run updates. I've already got an internet domain (lets call it abc.com) registered with nothing else tied to it.
First, I'm creating the local domain. Should / can I use abc.com? I'm at the point now where I've run dcpromo and it's asking me for the FQDN. After I get all this set up, I should be good togo. Just didn't know if abc.com would work and if so, what should I put in for dcpromo's FQDN? local.abc.com, abc.com, abc123.com?
Thanks!
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I am normally a fan of using your external domain name...
i would order abc.com and abc.net then use abc.net for your internal domain.
Where you will see the benefit is if you wanted to install OCS. it can be a swine when you want to communicate with the outside world if you use a .local address
hope that helps.
i would order abc.com and abc.net then use abc.net for your internal domain.
Where you will see the benefit is if you wanted to install OCS. it can be a swine when you want to communicate with the outside world if you use a .local address
hope that helps.
you need to run DCPROMO and create new domain tree in existing forest and also don't forget to enter DNS
Here is a step by step link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782483%28WS.10%29.aspx