Your subject is your answer. They need to justify a root domain. Is there an actual reason for it?
There are only three reasons to have one, imho....(cut and pasted from a google search) 1. Security requirements are different (password, lockout, and Kerberos policies must be applied at the domain level). 2. To control/limit replication (but note the recommendations for number of objects in a domain with slow links - if the slowest link is 56 kbps, the domain should have no more than 100,000 users). 3. Because you inherit a multiple domain setup. I question number three myself. I would rather clean it up than continue with a past decision but I guess that depends upon the impact to operations and the complexity of consolidation. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 9:37 AM > To: ActiveDir.org > Subject: [ActiveDir] Root Place Holder justification > > Does anyone have any official documentation as to the > justification for a root place holder, pro's and con's ? > > Where I am - I have started at one domain and can see no > reason to expand on that - they only have 6 DC's now in a > single domain - yet the partner they have chosen is > recomending a root place holder with 5 DC's and then 8 in the > child domain (they are NOT even supplying the tin) and I > wanted some decent amo - a little bit stronger than schema > and Ent admin separation. > > I know at DEC the concensus was the desire to eliminate and I > believe Guido and Wook have stated this for the past two DEC's > > I have searched this list and can find no relevant articles. > > Many thanks > > Regards > > Mark > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
