Parent / CHild Domain Setups
I am one of the "Experts" here but I don't have a good answer to this and I need to seek some more suggestions. At my work I have the Corporate location in one city and 5 other plants at 5 other cities. We currently use Linux and are in the process of moving over to Active Directory using Windows Server 2008 R2. I wanted to use a Parent / Child domain structure and use City.Domain.com as the child domain and Domain.com as the Corporate location. Each location has a different IP scheme 10.XX.0.0 and the XX changes per plant. One of the main problems that I have is that we are using Custom written software and it is using the same server names at each location on a flat network. So each fileserver points to 10.(local XX).1.1 but I am having an issue of getting Fileserver.Domain.com to let me point it differently at each plant while trying to set up AD. I have issues with that since the Active Directory replicates between the main location to the sites. Thanks everyone.
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We have the plan to move to 2012 but we are putting 2008 in first. This domain has always been on Linux so one baby step at a time.
Trent, what do you think of my suggestions?
FWIW, personally I think it would be easier to just deploy 2012 R2 first instead of upgrading to it later. I would also virtualize all of new Windows servers.
FWIW, personally I think it would be easier to just deploy 2012 R2 first instead of upgrading to it later. I would also virtualize all of new Windows servers.
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This is just what I needed. Thanks for the help. It worked great.
Which proposal? I gave three.
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DNS Subnet prioritization.
Cool. Just wanted to know so others that find this question will know which solution worked for you.
If you're looking for a single setting to change, you probably won't find one. Microsoft moved away from the "parent/child" topology years ago, replacing it with the forest structure. That said, you'll probably have a better understanding after reading this:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Cc783351(v=WS.10).aspx
Dennis