Question regarding AD and DNS zone

[drewdown]

Say your ad domain is company.com but you have your workstations registering their DNS/DHCP records in a zone called abc.company.com and NOT the company.com zone. Supposed you have your DNS search suffixes setup correctly and DNS is working without fail.

Will that cause problems?

 

[PScottC]

Not that I can think of right now, but you're going to frustrate anyone else who looks at the configuration. It's not standard by any means. It would be understandable if you had an AD domain called abc.company.com (regardless of whether it's the forest root domain or a child domain).

If I were to look at your network and see it my first concern would be, "Where are the DCs?" My second thought would be that this is complex simply for the sake of complexity.

Follow the KISS method. Like the rest of us, you're probably doing 2 people's work, and you've got too many other things to worry about.

PSC
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[drewdown]

10-4.

Right now its simply to discern separate physical sites. Obviously not the best way to do it but it was already being done this way before I got here.