Does anyone have experience or can you point me to information on 'x .local" domains.
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Microsoft Domain setup
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What specifically are you looking to do? Traditionally, the .local is so that you don't allow your domain name to be routable. Willing to try and help with a little more information to understand what is your scenario.
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This is a good article - http://www.mdmarra.com/2012/11/why-you-shouldnt-use-local-in-your.html
The biggest issue I've had with .local domains in the real world is that you can't buy a trusted 3rd party certificate for a server running things like Outlook Web Access so people's browser's and phones give warnings when you try to connect. I also don't believe you can rename a domain later if it has an Exchange server so you are stuck unless you are prepared to later do a cross forest migration or something similar to create a new domain for your organization.
Keep this in mind if you are creating a production domain. Although you may just be curious or are setting up home labs and none of the above affects you.
