20 Single Label Domain Name Update

Microsoft support for single label domains.

Single label domain name. This article contains information about microsoft s support policy about single label domains slds. As example your active directory domain might have a name like company local but if it were single label it might be just company. Single label name explanation.

Sld is a name that is used to describe domains which have only a single name and no suffix. A single label domain is a network identification address that doesn t use a prefix or suffix it is just the site or service name. Start the registry editor regedit exe.

Click start click run type regedit and then click ok. Single label domain sld so what is a single label domain. An active directory domain name that contains one or more labels separated by a dot is referred to as a fully qualified domain name with two or more names in contrast there is the concept of single label domain sld which refers to active directory domain names with only one label given that sld is not a commonly deployed configuration today.

Locally at hq it s using netbios to join however remotely it s relying on dns. To enable an active directory domain member to use dns to locate domain controllers in domains that have single label dns names that are in other forests follow these steps. 2 minutes to read.

Transitioning from a single label dns domain name to a fully qualified dns name is very easy and generally disruptive. By default clients will use dns to query single label domain names only if a single label domain exists in their local forest. The issue is the single label name.

Some server based applications are incompatible with the domain rename. Single label domains are implemented to access specific. To move to an fqdn your infrastructure would either be migrated to a new forest or you would have to perform a domain rename of the existing domain.