Guest Ldoodle Posted February 26, 2008 Posted February 26, 2008 Hello, I have inheritied a small network of about 6 servers and 60 computers that has numerous problems all over the place (DHCP, DNS, GP, AD etc) for the past couple of years (i'm in my second week!!!). To avoid waisting time trying to fix these issues, I was thinking of maybe rebuilding the domain from scratch instead, as over the past 5 or so years the previous team didn't really demote old servers properly and this has left stuff in the above services, hence the problems. The only problem with doing this is that rebuilding the domain will require all users/computers to be re-added etc and I don't think this will be possible without down-time, which is not acceptable for the business during 9am-5pm and 1 evening isn't enough time to get it all done. So, I was toying with the idea of creating a new domain in the same forest and setting up trusts etc between the 2, then slowly get rid of the old domain as and when everthing is transferred. What is the best way to approach/accomplish this? Thanks very much/...
Guest Anthony [MVP] Posted February 26, 2008 Posted February 26, 2008 Re: New domain, same network You would want a domain in a new forest. You can create a one-way trust with resources in the old domain. Move users and computers over to the new domain in stages. You can migrate accounts (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6f86937b-533a-466d-a8e8-aff85ad3d212&displaylang=en) but in my opinion sometimes it is easier to start again, depending on the circumstances. Anthony, http://www.airdesk.co.uk "Ldoodle" <Ldoodle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EE038492-8206-46E3-8C46-EA94CAF09531@microsoft.com... > Hello, > > I have inheritied a small network of about 6 servers and 60 computers that > has numerous problems all over the place (DHCP, DNS, GP, AD etc) for the > past > couple of years (i'm in my second week!!!). To avoid waisting time trying > to > fix these issues, I was thinking of maybe rebuilding the domain from > scratch > instead, as over the past 5 or so years the previous team didn't really > demote old servers properly and this has left stuff in the above services, > hence the problems. > > The only problem with doing this is that rebuilding the domain will > require > all users/computers to be re-added etc and I don't think this will be > possible without down-time, which is not acceptable for the business > during > 9am-5pm and 1 evening isn't enough time to get it all done. > > So, I was toying with the idea of creating a new domain in the same forest > and setting up trusts etc between the 2, then slowly get rid of the old > domain as and when everthing is transferred. > > What is the best way to approach/accomplish this? > > Thanks very much/...
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