All,
A couple of months
ago I threw a scenario out there and got some great feedback below is the
nightmare that we are now faced with, should you require any clarification do
not hesitate to contact me:
We have a very
successful Windows 2000 domain called, lets say us.corebusiness.com.au with
500+ users. Our sister company 6500+ users has decided to migrate to Windows
2000 and Exchange 2000 has decided that now is the time to go. We have
always had a trust in place. Politics, toys picked up around the
cot etc. have been sorted and the decision reached, their side
using contractors, is to have a root forest and then first and
second layer domains, far from the Root Domain two first level domains that we
pushed for...anyway. NOTE: HAVE TO HAVE SEPARATE DOMAINS, I won't go there now.:
Basic Domain Design:
OZprimary, Root Forest,
DNS
|
Ocorebusiness.com.au
|
Ous.corebusiness.com.au
Herein lies our
problem...we already have the namespace us.corebusiness.com.au in a Windows 2000
domain (Mixed Mode). The contractors will build us a DC and ship
it up to us. Herein lies a small issue....here is the clincher, we need to try
and retain as much info such as workstation and user accounts etc and
transfer it over to the new domain with the same namespace as the
old domain, am I making sense...Please advise if you can...
James
