How Best to Handle an Acquisition? 2

[waynen1]

Hello,
Our company has recently purchased a smaller company, and I am about to begin the process of assessing their current IT infrastructure, to see how best to intergrate it with ours.
I have been told by management that the acquired company must continue to operate under its own name, and hence email addresses must remain unchanged. They must however be brought into our domain.
We are a Windows Server 2003 / Win XP environment, with VMWare ESX 3.5 virtualised servers, and use Citrix for publishing apps.
My initial questions are -
- What is the best way to introduce an acquired company into your existing domain?
- Is it possible to introduce a child domain which does not contain the same domain extension? eg parent = @parentcompany.com.au, new child domain = @abc.com.au

Thanks - Wayne

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

I would create a Trust with their Forest. That would be considered adding it to your domain for IT management and resource access. You must decide if it is one or two way trust. Then if you need to: build a clean child domain and migrate when settings are what you need...but the trust is the quickest and easiest way to integrate.

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[58sniper]

TechMcSe2k is right - a trust is what you want. You can then use ADMT to move their resources into your domain. If you use Exchange, you can configure recipient policies just for those users, to handle email for their SMTP domain.

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