Are you looking to reduce the domains, or are you just wondering if it'd be easy to move the DNS service from BIND to MS DNS? Your question mentioned rendom and then you called out where DNS is hosted, so it's a bit unclear which you want to do. In any case, rendom requires a lot of careful thinking and planning - so yes, it may be a nightmare to just up and whip out rendom. If, however, you are simply thinking of relocating the DNS to the 2K3 servers, then that is a less-intensive exercise. Sincerely,
Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCT Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Scott McIntosh Sent: Mon 12/12/2005 4:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Our company has the following DNS architecture (this is somewhat oversimplified but illustrates the point): COM | ABCCORP (hosted on UNIX BIND) / \ (hosted on AD-integrated DIR FR UK US - etc. (hosted on UNIX BIND) W2k3 DNS) / | \ \ \ \ AM EU AS Seton (etc) Gilly (etc) Marshal (etc) (many domains at this level) / \ \ Marshal (etc) Seton (etc) Wong (etc) DIR.ABCCORP.COM is the W2k3 AD forest root domain. Currently clients and WIndows servers capable of DNS self-registration register in AD. All non-Windows servers are registered in BIND. I want to simplify.. simplify ....simplify the DNS architecture and host as much as possible on AD-integrated Server 2003 DNS. Under the current architecture, could this be accomplished using rendom.exe (Domain Rename tool)? Or would this require an entire AD restructure and be a logistical nightmare to migrate? What would be the steps to accomplish this? In the EU.DIR.ABCCORP.COM domain, the AD implementation is nearly fully implemented and there are many locations. It is W2k3 forest and domain functional level. If it would be very difficult to implement, what is the maximum degree of AD-integrated Server 2003 hosting which could be achieved given this scenario? 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/
