Which Domain Setup should I use??????

[Bhag]

Hello All,

I need some help in deciding which route to take. Here is the
situation.

Our current network is setup as one domain as we have few different
sites but still under one domain. Now our company is expanding to
different countries and the requirements are as follows:

1. User in different country should have their own email addresses
2. Users from different countries will be accessing our servers for
Citrix apps, Databases other apps etc.

I would like to know if i should setup user accounts for other
countries in our domain or should I create child domain for each
country. Few suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Herb Martin]

Hello All,

I need some help in deciding which route to take. Here is the
situation.

Our current network is setup as one domain as we have few different
sites but still under one domain. Now our company is expanding to
different countries and the requirements are as follows:

1. User in different country should have their own email addresses

Assuming you mean "email with different domain suffixes", e.g.,
(e-mail address removed) and (e-mail address removed) it is not essential
that the users be in different domains IN GENERAL.

2. Users from different countries will be accessing our servers for
Citrix apps, Databases other apps etc.

That implies a single forest with perhaps one or multiple domains.

(There can also be strange rules for international law.)

I would like to know if i should setup user accounts for other
countries in our domain or should I create child domain for each
country. Few suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

No one can say for certain without a lot more info about users,
countries, where resources are located, etc.

 

[Richard Mueller [MVP]]

Hello All,

I need some help in deciding which route to take. Here is the
situation.

Our current network is setup as one domain as we have few different
sites but still under one domain. Now our company is expanding to
different countries and the requirements are as follows:

1. User in different country should have their own email addresses
2. Users from different countries will be accessing our servers for
Citrix apps, Databases other apps etc.

I would like to know if i should setup user accounts for other
countries in our domain or should I create child domain for each
country. Few suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

This Best Practices document might help:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/profwin/pw0302.mspx

Also check the links. I like to have one domain, due to complications
whenever there is more than one. The only reason I feel that justifies more
than one domain is separate IT organizations that insist on separate control
and security policies.