Domain name for AD

[Bobbeh]

Hello, we are moving from RM CC4 to a new server with 2016 on over the summer in our primary school.

 

Currently we are using Office 365 through something setup by our LA, longer term I would quite like to move away from that and use our own (currently unused) O365 tenant linked to our onsite setup to simplify login. I don't intend to do it right away but am hoping to not do anything now that would cause problems in the future!

 

We bought a domain name for our O365 tenant so can use that for our new onsite domain. From what I've read recommended practice would be the Active Directory on our Server 2016 domain would be created as a subdomain, something like ad.ourdomain.net, is that correct?

 

I'm not doing the server part of the install myself so just wanting to make sure I'm asking for the right thing. Any other tips would be gratefully received.

 

Thanks.

[azureusnation]

Correct you should by best practice use a domain name that you own. this should be a subdomain like you have said so you don't get dns errors later down the line. I'm waiting for the day when .local get registered as tld's and then all hell will break loose across the IT world.

[mavhc]

.local is already in use for mDNS, so the day was 2013

[FishCustard]

Yes, best practice is something like ad.domain.whatever. If you're going to integrate with Office 365 you definitely want to do it this way to avoid the need to do this sort of faffing about.