Thanks for the quick response, to both of you ...seems I can remember waiting
for days for a response in other IT news groups...very nice as I am just about to
build this New Domain either today or Monday and do not really want to start over
if we go about it the wrong way. 
I will be a putting BDC on line in our current domain them take it off line-
promote it then upgrade for our new domain...make things much
easer if you ask me. So all wkstations joining the new domain will get a
new profile...just wondering is there a way to copy there current profile
so they will use it when logging into the new domain?
And, regarding our new domain, Microsoft did say I should go with 1 site.
And not worry about setting up site links in "Sites and Services" unless there
seems to be replication performance issues later. I know what you are saying
but they did say the easier the better and that they have actually had other companies
removing site links for ease of use, when they have major problems....this is coming from
the AD team they have dedicated to Active Directory problems, I assume they should know
as AD problems is all they deal with.
But if there is a good reason to set up site links you can suggest I will go
with that.

Thanks again for any suggestions you may have

Sincerely ...Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Noah Eiger" < neiger@prbo.org>
To: < ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 2:18 PM
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Help. should we do this??

> On the first part, things seem right except the bit about one site. Seems
> that if you have five cities, you would want five sites. Your connectivity
> should not be a problem at that speed. And, yes, I believe you should have
a
> GC in each city/site.
>
> As for the migration bit, someone else....
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
> [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org]On Behalf Of Steve&Mags
> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 1:08 PM
> To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Help. should we do this??
>
>
> Another question, guess it adds to the first one...
> Current users are logging into a NT Domain, we are going to move our
> users to the new Win2k Domain, what is the eisiest way to have users
> use there previous profile, eliminating setting up Outlook again and all
> users
> settings? Is this possible?
>
> Thanks
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve&Mags
> To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 1:29 PM
> Subject: [ActiveDir] Help. should we do this??
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> Question, I had called Microsoft Just for some advise before I
> setup our new Domain. I am lucky as we have the chance to
> setup a new Forest starting from scratch.
> We have 5 remote Cities with Central Administration at our
> headquarters. Is the best way to go: 1 Domain, all additional
> cities setup as additional DC's in an existing domain, 1 site.
> This seems to easy but that is what they suggest. Before I started
> I just want to make sure I am doing the right thing. We are on Fiber with
> our
> slowest link- 512K. Should there be a global catalog in each city, and
> what other main things should I watch out for. Hope this is not
> to much of a broad question...but I have to start some where.
>
> Thanks much I you can respond!!
>
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