Thanks, Ed and Chris, for your replies. Ed wrote: > From a design standpoint, I have to agree, which is why I asked why he > wasn't going to a single AG earlier. From a practical > standpoint, however, > since the person posing the question has no authority and it > sounds like > little influence over the other subsidiaries, his options are limited.
Well, thankfully, I'm in the tech group that has complete authority over the entire forest. I have the root domain Administrator password, and I've granted Exchange Full Administrator rights to just myself and one other person. The various orgs have no problem with that - they just want control over their own domain and their own Exchange server. They don't want lower-level techies from the other domains messing in theirs, but they're happy to have us super-geeks in charge (at least for now). Chris wrote: > Difficult to consolidate IT infrastructures when each group > is trying to > piss in the other's Cheerios, but to the extent you can cachieve that > through brute force, the cost of the contest is defrayed from an IT > standpoint. Which is why my department was founded in the first place, back around 1987 or so. The six orgs realized they were just duplicating each others' efforts with all the IT folks everywhere, so they got together and founded our department. These guys were buddies out of the office, too - playing golf together, etc. Now, the execs from those 6 orgs have been replaced with guys that don't want to be so chummy, and want their own IT staff, servers, domains, etc. They realize that having one forest for everybody is a good idea, but they want their own hardware, and control over it. So, onward I plunge, and making some progress, too. Still a few things that just plain don't work right, but that's par. Thanks for the comments, guys. Larry Wahlers _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
