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New Forest Name and New Domain name cannot be different...

I am creating a brand new domain in a new forest. Nowdays, it is recommended that domain name "ad1.DOMAIN.COM." OK, but how?
Do I specify that in "root domain name" when I choose "Add a new forest"?

Then when I add a new tree in this forest, then Forest Name will be ad1.DOMAIN.COM or DOMAIN.COM?

Last question: Does that matter, as long as I put ad2.DOMAIN.NAME as New Domain Name when I add the second tree?
It just sound funny that the forest name becomes "ad1.DOMAIN.COM."

Aard Vark

Microsoft have written an article with screenshots.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/identity/ad-ds/deploy/install-a-new-windows-server-2012-active-directory-child-or-tree-domain--level-200-#BKMK_Deployment

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The article does not answer my question. I've heard that MS recommends that you have DOMAIN.COM forest separately on a DC, then underneath is ad1.DOMAIN.COM and ad2.DOMAIN.com on other DCs. Only the huge corporations can do this, and I don't have a Server license just to establish DOMAIN.COM above adx.DOMAIN.COM.

So how the small/midium size companies do, if you want to follow adx.DOMAIN.COM naming convention?

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No it is not a requirement, and it better not (to have DOMAIN.COM forest)!!!
So I guess the forest name (is there such a thing?) will be ad1.DOMAIN.COM, and that's what I need to specify when I create another tree ad2.DOMAIN.COM.

Thanks!

Aard Vark

Yes correct.