/ auditing settings( required forest-wide) are implemented separately to each domain in the forest. This setup is considered a regional domain configuration and will reduce traffic over wide area network( WAN) links. While service administration will be carefully controlled at the Hong Kong office, the following functions will be maintained within the New York office: Creating organizational units( OUs) and delegating administration Repairing problems in the OU structure that OU owners do not have sufficient access rights to fix Instead of creating a separate forest root domain, the New York office function as the forest root domain. It will be a parent domain to the other offices. Service administrator accounts will reside on the New York root domain while user accounts for each region will reside on the appropriate domain. For administration purposes, the branch offices will functions as child domains under the New York root domain. This configuration was chosen because it is much easier to manage than a configuration with a separate domain for administrative accounts. Active Directory Naming Convention: WWTC. org is the Active Directory namespace used by WWTC. It is a registered fully qualified domain name for WWTC. WWTC will use the same internal and external namespace. WWTC. org will be used from inside and outside the organization without a