Trying to make my Mac's play nice in a windows DNS world

jsova
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This is the current config at my org as we have been a windows shop for decades.

DHCP automatically dishes out the “dev.XXXX.com” suffix to every system using DHCP, whether they are domain joined or not. With Windows, if you are joined to the AD domain corporate.XXXXX.com, then that overrides the DHCP assigned DNS suffix and the name is updated.

I'm running a project to make the mac "Enterprise Ready" and I would like the above to hold true for the Mac OS X hosts as well. I really don't want them in the DNS space of dev as who knows what kind of things the pesky developers are doing in there. Is there a way to make this happen? my macs are AD bound and the DNS server is locked down to only allow changes from AD joined systems. when I use dsconfigad -show it is showing the system has an active directory domain of corporate.xxxx.com.

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