Active Directory and Domains

hamesy

hamesy

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I’ve never really had to mess with Active Directory, adding a new user was the most I’ve done. However recently I’ve started to expand my knowledge and got myself a couple of books, but one thing is completely puzzling me. When setting up the domain in active directory, does the domain have to be the same domain name for your website?

Say for instance my company had a website www.bruztrucks.com hosted in a datacentre that someone else managed for us, and then we implemented active directory on our site using the domain bruztrucks.com, would the outside world see our active directory domain?

The only reason I’m asking is because every resource I look at tells me one thing, and then another one words it totally different and just confuses me even more.
 
Nope, infact its a common (and best) practice to have a local domain name that isn't the same as your external FQDN.

However, even if you named your internal domain bruztrucks.com, the outside world would not "see" your AD structure, as there would be no internet DNS records pointing to your internal domain (unless you hosted an external name server).

Personally

bruztrucks.local. would be my internal domain name in this scenario.
 
i wouldent use .local anymore as it causes problems with macs (well it did in OSX 10.3)

.lan or simliar solves this
 
split-brain DNS. Your local can be the same domain as your external just make sure that you setup records for the external webserver on the local DNS server, else internal users wont be able to lookup the company website.
 
paradigm said:
Like I care about macs \o/

Macs shouldnt be on an enterprise level network anyway.
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Where are you working now, i thought you didn't deal with "enterprise level networks " anymore ;)

But then my 110 users and 10 servers is hardly enterprise either :(
 
Sone said:
Where are you working now, i thought you didn't deal with "enterprise level networks " anymore ;)

But then my 110 users and 10 servers is hardly enterprise either :(
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I don't anymore, but I work in a financial institution. We certainly won't touch a Mac with a bargepole ;)
 
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