Mastering Active Directory

Correcting legacy design mistakes

These kinds of situations are pricier for organizations. Most of the time, they end up with restructuring domain infrastructures. A year ago, I was talking to a company about a domain restructure. It's a multimillion dollar trading company with branches across the world. So, the problem was that when they designed the AD infrastructure a long time ago, they used a single-label domain name as the primary domain. SLDs are domain names that do not have DNS suffixes such as .com, .org, or .net. After some time, they realized the limitations of SLDs and didn't fix them as that required some administrative changes. No one wanted to take the responsibility, either. The company kept growing, and instead of fixing ...