/ 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