Also make sure to integrate your WINS environments. Establish a push pull replication between your two separate WINS environments to allow for full name resolution between both AD domains via DNS and WINS (assuming you are using WINS).
Brian is on the right track I think. If sharing resources is you goal then a trust relationship between the two domains and the ability to do name resolution should enable you to do most of what you need to do in terms of resource sharing. Migrating 2 domains into one domain is not a trivial task, especially when it is required after a merger of two separate companies. There are so many things to take into account that a lot of planning, information gathering and testing really needs to be done before you go forward with a migration. Issues like network connectivity, bandwidth between the two companies, name resolution, security, administration etc. all need to be taken into consideration (along with other issues). Phil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 8:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Joining to different AD Domains Hi Mike, What you're looking for is a two way trust between the domains. You can set this up using AD Domains and Trusts. A trust will enable cross domain resource sharing. As far as DNS, I'd recommend creating a secondary zone for each organization on the other's DNS servers. Eventually you may want to collapse the two companies into a single domain using ADMT, but, this is not a quick 123 process. Thanks. --Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Payton on the web! www.wpcp.org <http://www.wpcp.org> v - 773.534.0034 x135 f - 773.534.8101 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hogenauer Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 7:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Joining to different AD Domains Our company recently merged with another company. Both companies are running windows 2000 AD domains. I need to join these 2 domains ASAP to share resources and user groups, etc. I've never had to join two different AD domains into one domain so any first steps or good links would be appreciated. Just looking good advice, especially with regards to the 2 different DNS zones and combining or just recreating a new Zone. Thanks in advance Mike List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
