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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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DNS delegation

In the previous chapter, when we were looking at the AD DS design, I explained child domain controllers and how they can be used to organize the company's AD hierarchy. When you create a child domain in a forest, it also creates its own DNS namespace. In a DNS infrastructure, sometimes, it is required that you divide the DNS namespace to create additional zones for better management. DNS delegation allows organizations to achieve this without the need to change the domain structure.

In AD-integrated DNS, you are allowed to create any DNS zone, and it will be replicated to other domain controllers. But there are situations where this can lead to administrative overhead. Rebeladmin Corp. uses rebeladmin.com as its AD DS domain name. They have a software development department that develops web-based applications.

In order to test their applications, they have to use a web URL. Every time they need to test something, they open a support ticket and the IT team...

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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