Modify the routing status of a name suffix

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

You can change the routing status (enabled or disabled) of a name suffix by using the New Trust Wizard in Active Directory Domains and Trusts or by using the Netdom command-line tool. For more information about how to use the Netdom command-line tool to modify name suffix routing settings, see "Netdom.exe: Windows Domain Manager" in the Windows Server 2003 Technical Reference on the Microsoft Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=41700).

Administrative credentials

To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the Domain Admins group or the Enterprise Admins group in Active Directory.

To modify the routing status of a name suffix

Using the Windows interface

  1. Open Active Directory Domains and Trusts.

  2. In the console tree, right-click the domain node for the domain that you want to administer, and then click Properties.

  3. On the Trusts tab, under either **Domains trusted by this domain (outgoing trusts)**or Domains that trust this domain (incoming trusts), click the forest trust that you want to administer, and then click Properties.

  4. On the Name Suffix Routing tab, under Name suffixes in the x.x forest, click the suffix for which you want to modify routing status, and then click Edit.

  5. In Existing name suffixes in x.x, click the suffix that you want to modify, and then click Enable or Disable.