So... are they going to split outright? No connection to you at all? If you find they decide on a complete split, you won't be able to easily pickup that child domain and move it. The forest itself will have something to say about that...
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Jeremy Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > My understanding is that eventually this buisness unit will have its own > employees and will be a "sub-company" fromthe parent company. Creating a > child domain now allows me to prepare for that. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Don Ely [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:20 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Child Domain > > A child domain isn't going to facilitate a simple split... It will make > it more difficult if anything... The child domain is part of the overall > forest, how will you separate them? > > > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Jeremy Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> You may ask that. Eventually the buisness unit is going to spin off >> into its own "Thing" . The goal is to catch this now before 2 years from >> now and I am looking back wondering why I didnt split this out. Eventually >> the need will be there, I am just catching it early. >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* MarvinC [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Saturday, January 24, 2009 8:54 PM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Re: Child Domain >> >> May I ask why child domains instead of using OU's? >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Jeremy Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I am setting up a child domain for a new buisness unit. We want to >>> keep them seperate in the future, but at the beginning, all the users will >>> still exist in the parent domain. My two questions are 1) what are the >>> implications of having the child domain on the same subnet of the parent >>> domain. The second question is, is there any pros or cons to having the >>> child domain controller server 2008, when every server in the parent domain >>> is still 2003? >>> >>> >>> >>> Any input, advice, is greatly appriciated. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Jeremy >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
