I'm biased too but I'll echo Michael's sentiments about the Quest tools. People balk at the price but once you look at the possible time savings it generally makes sense to just buy them; I once used QMM for AD in an intra-forest migration to collapse 22 domains with 21000 users in under 4 weeks. I highly doubt I could have done it using ADMT in anything close to that time...
Thanks, Jeremy Phillips Managing Consultant | Cohesive Logic | Mobile: 540-322-7980 | Office: 425-949-1337 -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:15 AM To: Active Directory Admin Issues Subject: RE: Merging two domains from two forests Four letters: ADMT :-) That's your solution (for free) from Microsoft. There are loads of whitepapers and documentation available for ADMT on the Microsoft web properties. Lots of third paries are in this space too - Quest probably has the best tools (but I'm biased). ________________________________________ From: Gary Babb [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:01 AM To: Active Directory Admin Issues Subject: Merging two domains from two forests We currently have two Windows Server 2003 domains in two separate forests. We are planning to merge the two domains into one forest. I'm looking for best practices or step-by-step instructions for merging two domains from separate forest into one forest. Thanking you in advance for your help. Regards, Gary ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=400> ~ ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=400> ~ ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=400> ~
