Microsoft KB Archive/240147

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

Article ID: 240147

Article Last Modified on 2/28/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

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This article was previously published under Q240147



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.

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

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"

When this occurs, the following errors may have also recorded in the Event Logs:

Event ID: 1168 Source: NTDS General Category: Internal Processing Description: Error has occurred (Internal ID ). Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services for assistance.

Event ID: 1153 Event Source: NTDS General Event Category: Internal Processing Class identifier (class name which can vary by machine) has an invalid superclass. Inheritance ignored.

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