Microsoft Best Practices Internal Domain Name

In the past lots of people chose to use a dummy unofficial tld top level domain for their internal network like domain lan domain local of domain internal and also domain internalhost but this can get you in serious trouble.

Microsoft best practices internal domain name. Assigning the forest root domain name. So the question is. Microsoft strongly recommends that you register a public domain and use subdomains for the internal dns. The forest root domain name is also the name of the forest.

Before we discuss current best practices there are a couple of popular practices that are no longer recommended. The first is using a generic top level domain. The short answer as best practice. So register a public dns name so you own it.

1 in a single forest multi domain model typically the root domain should act as the resource domain which hosts critical infrastructure like ca servers exchange lync adfs etc. I believe it was promoted as the microsoft best practice at the time but to be honest it was quite a while ago and i really don t recall the details. What s the best practice for dns naming for internal domains and networks. Design considerations best practices.

The forest root name is a domain name system dns name that consists of a prefix and a suffix in the form of prefix suffix. Since around the time that windows 2000 was released our company standard has been to use theircompanyname local for the internal domain name for all of the networks for our clients. Bola ossou january 16 2019 at 7 11 am.