Removing Forest Head

[edkale]

We have a two domain forest that we want to eliminate by demoting (dcpromo) the last dc in the other domain. It happens to be the first server installed and is therefore the head of the forest. We have transferred all non-core AD activities off the old guy to other DCs in the other domain. Has anybody done this and do you have any advice?

Thanks,
Ed Kale, IT Mgr
Nor-Cal Products, Inc.

 

[mlichstein]

Are the two domains in a parent/child relationship, or two separate trees in the same forest?

For instance, parent/child is domain.com, child.domain.com and separate trees is domain.com, domain.net.

 

[edkale]

Good Question. I believe they are two separate trees. The domains do not share a namespace. The domains are ncproducts.com and ncpi.com. ncproducts.com is the first domain created and the one we want to remove.

 

[mlichstein]

Yeah, actually now that I think about it, it doesn't matter. You can't remove the root of the forest, or you lose the forest.

 

[Seaspray0]

If you break the trust between them, you will effectively seperate the domains completely in the forest. It will give you an indication of what would happen if that domain wasn't there at all.