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Originally Posted by Rob
It is recommended that you use a format of mydomain.local for your active directory type stuff, i.e. the LAN side configurations. You then use the same mydomain.com (or whatever internet addy .co.uk, etc) for the internet side of things. At least that is how every text book, and website guide that I have seen for Small Business Server indicate things should be set up
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That was the case when W2K came out, but the benefits of using the same domain name made themselves more apparent, especially as people started to understand how DNS actually works. Remember the days when people thought if you set your AD domain to company.com then your DNS server will start servicing requests for external users, or you won't be able to access your externally hosted website etc etc.
All poppycok through.
You can automatically log in using your email address, very handy for users especially with OWA. How many times have calls be logged with service desks because a user can't log in after an admin has logged in using a local admin account because the domain name is wrong. Using email addresses as usernames removes this problem.
Course back then you still had a lot of sites/books telling you that your C: had to be 4GB (NT4's setup restriction due to vFAT), and then 10GB.
Look at how many problems that advice has caused.