I just started working for a company. they used to outsource their AD/Exchange but now they're trying to get it back.
Its a 2 tree, 2 domain forest. the root domain is empty. this company only has DA access on the child domain. No EA access. In fact, they are cut off from the root domain pyhsically. What they want to do is create a new forest and migrate all users,exchange,computers,etc to the new forest and be done with the old. They are going to use Quest sw and a consultant from Quest for this. My question is- can this be done without any connectivity to the root? both dns zones are in the root so they really don't have any dns locally as well(needless to say, you cam imagine what the rep logs look like). I'm sure this complicates matters. however, the Quest people seem to think this can still work. can it? also, can the new forest have the same domain names as the old one? Thanks(I'm the guy who posted about his new job jitters about a week or 2 ago, and here i am. Their AD is more messed up than I thought :) ) List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
