Splitting A Forest Apart

[tekistry]

With the help of this forum, and a lot of research, a couple of years ago I setup our local domain: ewalters.co.uk, and as a child of the forest I set up our Bulgarian office: ewalters.bg, connected by a VPN.
Sadly our company has been into administration (and even more sadly, come out again).
Both domains use Exchange 2003 and 2003 domain controllers.
Can anyone point me in the right direction of any helpful advice / links on breaking the domains apart again, I have been told that this is unsupported but find this hard to believe.
Thanks in advance everyone for your help.
Nick

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[ShackDaddy]

There is a tool made by Quest Software that will do this. It's called the Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory. Microsoft doesn't offer the tools to do it, but Quest's product handles it.

http://wm.quest.com/products/migrationmanagerad/

If you register at the Quest site you can download an eval copy with documentation. The nice thing about this product is that even though the process of splitting a forest is still fairly involved, at least there's a clear roadmap, and all the most tedious methods of doing it manually are automated. Not that I've ever seen anyone ever give a roadmap to doing it manually...

ShackDaddy

 

[xmsre]

Your best approach would be to use ADMT or a third party tool to migrate the objects in domain that is leaving to a new forest. Then, decommission the empty domain.

 

[tekistry]

Thanks.
I also got some advice here:

http://web2.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16517

it looks like the poor girl in Bulgaria will need to do most of the work!

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