Hello Everyone,
I was working for a business (Bus1) that was partially acquired
by another (Bus2). Bus1 has a corporate network and is reliant upon
Active Directory to complete their daily activities. Bus2 is dependant on
Bus1’s current infrastructure for the time being. This obviously needs
to be changed immediately!
Now that I am with Bus2, I am trying to build a new domain.
I do not want to name the new domain based off of Bus2’s
“REAL” name i.e. microsoft.com. I want to name it something
more generic, i.e. corporatedomain.ad. My thinking behind this is because
I want to prepare for another company acquisition should it ever happen.
If Bus3 buys Bus2, it is possible that they will not like the old domain name
because it carries the “REAL” name of the acquired Bus2.
But by having something more generic, I hope to avoid this problem.
With the above said, I have two questions:
- Bus2 does not have licensing
for MS Exchange. Currently IMAP (yuck) is the mail solution. I
do not thing that IMAP will last long in our environment especially since
we come from a MS Exchange environment with Bus1. If in the event
that MS Exchange is used at a future date within the Bus2 domain, will MS
Exchange’s functionality or administration be affected?
- I am aware about the domain
rename feature that is available with Windows 2003. Regardless of
the domain name used for the corporate network, can the domain rename tool
be used when there exists a MS Exchange server? Outside of unforeseen
problems, is using this tool a general problem or something that should be
avoided all together?
- Bus2 has several geographic
areas. A geographic domain setup is not established but I have
already started the wheels spinning. Who knows when anything real
will come out of it? Because of that, I will more specifically name
the domain chicago.corporatedomain.ad in preparation for a new forest.
Then, all that would be needed is to add my existing domain to the newly
created forest that Bus2 creates. Will any of the above answers
change now that a forest is being created?
Thank you all for your replies,
Edwin
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