I've been doing some reading on suggested top-level-domains for AD and whatnot. I used to setup domains as company.local and that worked just fine, however, more people want to use their external domain company.com instead of the .local suffix.
I've got a quick clarification question, how am I supposed to set up my first forest if we're going to actually use our registered domain name?
It's easy enough to setup a new forest with company.com but wouldn't I then have to add a child-domain of corp.company.com to a new DC? Essentially requiring two DCs just to set up the one domain.
Or would I create the first forest as corp.company.com and be done with it? That seems to make a lot more sense.
Answer
Bingo on your last statement.
Set up your AD forest as corp.
corp.company.com.
Edit: Also read this post by MDMarra: What should I name my Active Directory?
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