Cannot Create an Organizational Unit in the Parent Domain with the Same Name as a Child Domain in Windows 2000

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

SUMMARY

You cannot create an organizational unit (OU) in a parent domain with the same name as a child domain in Windows 2000 because a name conflict is created.

MORE INFORMATION

Although you can perform this action under the X.500 protocol (therefore, allowable under Active Directory), it prevents future development and use of typeless naming. The Relative Distinguished Name values conflict with each other, even though the Relative Distinguished Name attribute types are different.

If you attempt to create an OU in the parent domain with the same name as a child domain, the following error message is displayed:

Active Directory

Windows cannot create the object because: An attempt was made to add an object to the directory with a name that was already in use.
Name-related properties on this object might now be out of sync.
Contact your network administrator.

Active Directory Installation Failed

The operation failed because: The Directory Service failed to create the object CN=Name of the Child Domain, CN=Partitions, CN=Configuration, DC=DomainName, DC=Com. Please check for possible system errors. "The directory service is busy"

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbenv
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb kbinfo