Domain Consolidation

Erasmo · Guest

I'm looking for some guidance/ direction/ help/assistance with the following:

My company has acquire 2 small companies, these 2 other companies are
running Windows 2000 domain, on the other hand I'm running Windows 2003
domain in native mode. I'm trying to come up with a plan to integrate those 2
companies and consolidate their domain so it will only participate in the
main corporate domain. What is the best method to do this and what are the
steps involve in doing so?

I'm looking for high level overview and what I need to watch out for, also I
need to migrate user accounts from each domain to the coporate domain. Thanks.

Danny Sanders · Guest

ADMT to migrate the users from their domain to yours.

Then set these 2 companies up as sites on your domain with proper
subnetting.

Once you have ADMT to migrate the users to your domain you can run dcpromo
on their DCs to remove AD. Then rename the DC and set the proper IP address
for their site subnet, run dcpromo again to add the server to your domain as
a DC in their site.

Don't forget to work out the DNS, DHCP and set them as Global catalogs.

hth
DDS

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