Besides significantly increasing the likelihood of people logging onto the wrong domain and generating support calls along the lines of "where's my stuff?"
Not really. AD accommodates the same name in multiple domains, as long as the UPNs are different (which they are, or account creation would have failed). Why doesn't the other SA just let people use their regular accounts? Laura > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon Linan > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:48 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: [ActiveDir] Domain and Subdomain. Duplicating accounts > > Hi, > > The company I work for has 2 office in 2 different states. > > The main office is domain.com and other office is a subdomain > (sub.domain.com). > > Our users sometimes go to the other office (sub.domain.com) > to work for a week or so, I just found out that other SA has > been creating accounts for my users in the subdomain. > > So now I have "same" user in the domain and subdomain, beside > being a stupid way of doing things is there any technical > issue this could create? > > > Thanks > > Rezuma > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/ > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/
