Our company is acquiring a few small companies and I have some design questions.
Our primary company has good hardware infrastructure and provides all its services locally. We want to utilize an empty root domain with child domains for each new company.
The few acquired companies are being planned to have a single dc at our primary location and a second dc at each child domain (company) location providing dhcp/dns etc. File and print will remain local to each company as well. However we want to leave exchange for each child domain at the primary location based on the available hardware.
Does anyone see a problem with such a layout? My concern is the distribution of fsmo roles and # of global catalogs with exchange being in an alternate site not local to any clients. We expect infrequent and short connectivity issues with the branch offices and the primary location.
Thanks for any feedback and guidance.
Our primary company has good hardware infrastructure and provides all its services locally. We want to utilize an empty root domain with child domains for each new company.
The few acquired companies are being planned to have a single dc at our primary location and a second dc at each child domain (company) location providing dhcp/dns etc. File and print will remain local to each company as well. However we want to leave exchange for each child domain at the primary location based on the available hardware.
Does anyone see a problem with such a layout? My concern is the distribution of fsmo roles and # of global catalogs with exchange being in an alternate site not local to any clients. We expect infrequent and short connectivity issues with the branch offices and the primary location.
Thanks for any feedback and guidance.