Consolidating forests

[markdt]

Hi All,

My aim is to use a distrubuted file system across our sites at work. Unfortunately we have six domains in total in 6 seperate forest.e.g.

FOREST:companygroup
DOMAIN:companygroup.local

FOREST:acompanysite
DOMAIN:acompanysite.local

FOREST:bcompanysite
DOMAIN:bcompanysite.local

At the moment they are all trusted so file sharing is possible but extremely slow!

I understand that DFS will not work unless each domain exists in the same forest?

At the majority of the sites we have a single server running 2003 in 2003 functionality, with one site in mixed as there is a TS server on 2000.

My question is what would be the best way of going about re-structuring the domains to be in the same forest? What tools would do the job?

 

[pagy]

ADMT is used for this;

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...7B-533A-466D-A8E8-AFF85AD3D212&displaylang=en

Paul
MCSE


"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein

 

[58sniper]

I'd rethink the whole separate domain/forest issue. You don't provide enough info for me to speculate further, but if these are all just branch offices of the same company, you'd make life easier with a single forest, and potentially, a single domain.

Of course, YMMV

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP

 

[markdt]

Hi Pat,

Yes im sure your right having one forest would make life alot easier. We already have an existing forest which i would like all of my domains to be part of.

They are all branch offices scatered around the country and are connected via a WAN.

I have used rendom in the past to rename other company domains. Could this tool be used? All i want is a few pointers on where to start.

Thanks

Mark

 

[58sniper]

You can't rename a domain so that it's part of another domain. You'd have to create trusts between the existing domains so that you can migrate resources between them using ADMT as pagy mentioned.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP