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Mike Lloyd-Jones
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Feb 10, 2023
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Root domain name

Setting up a new 2022 server for a business (first server install in a long time!) , just checking the root domain name best practice is still to use a subdomain of the public domain name? So if the...
  • Alban1998's avatar
    Feb 10, 2023
    Hello,
    I suppose that by "Setting up a new 2022 server" you mean a new Active Directory.
    In this case, some best practices are :
    - 1 domain, 1 forest
    - create an Active Directory forest "corp" (or whatever), subdomain of your root DNS domain ("contoso.com"). So full FQDN for AD would be corp.contoso.com

    Regards,

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