I'm facing a similar situation: single forest, single domain though. (Thank goodness!)
I think the place to start is really outside AD: who owns all these resources you're keeping in AD? What do they intend to do with them? When does the split happen? And how? Big bang or slow death?? Is email integrated into your forests? Sites going where? IP space? It's a daunting task to get it all sorted out. If you have the overall company plan, knowing what to do with AD can be much easier. AL Al Maurer Service Manager, Naming and Authentication Services IT | Information Technology Agilent Technologies (719) 590-2639; Telnet 590-2639 http://activedirectory.it.agilent.com ---------------------------------------------- "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war" - Anthony, in Julius Caesar III i. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Companies splitting - where to start with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, etc. Depends. How good/how current is your cv? Like I said before, you really need to understand the environment to make these kinds of calls. Did you find out if they're two forests or one? Joe mentioned to me that you could use ADFIND to do this. adfind -h dc -b -s base |grep root would give you the information you needed. A lot depends on knowing that information. Once you know that, I think Phil posted something about an inventory or some such. He's absolutely right and that's why I suggested following the OSI stack from the bottom up to figure out what you have and what your options are. I'm dying to know about the forest or multiple forest answer :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 10:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Companies splitting - where to start with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, etc. On 8/31/05, joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. > > Someone followed the MS book examples pretty explicitly. :o) Can I simply break the AD trust and hope it does melt down? :) Thanks, ...D 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/ 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/ 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/
