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Choosing local versus public domain name for Active Directory

I'm using company.com.qa as my email domain, which I have hosted with my ISP. Can I use same domain name, company.com.qa, for my Windows 2008 Domain Controller? Should I use company.local or something else?

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Prasanna
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I would suggest local.company.com.qa if you're company.com.qa. Using company.local will cause you problems if you have Mac clients on your network.

Bill Weiss
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Conventional wisdom on this matter is to use a subdomain of an Internet-registered DNS name you already own. So in your case, something like corp.company.com.qa or ad.company.com.qa.

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