Thanks Joe for your quick and very well
explained reply. For question 2, I never wanted to rename
the domain regardless if a tool was available or not. That is why I want
to go with something more generic. As for question 3, that sort of holds
me up and makes my course of action change. Thanks again, Edwin From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of joe 1. The domain name can be disjoint from
the Exchange domain names handled. In fact, I have a joeware.local which
handles mail for joeware.local, joeware.net, and joeware2.net. It could just as
easily be hosting bob.com and steve.com email. 2. Yes it can. But don't go into a new
domain thinking you will rename it. You should try to avoid the rename options.
They can be involved. 3. Ah no. When you create your domain, if
it isn't joined to a forest at that point, you are creating a new forest. You
won't be joining any other forests later, if you need to be in another forest
you will be migrating to a new domain in that forest. You need to sit down
and chat with the Bus2 IT folks and DNS folks and network folks and get an idea
of what the future holds if not everything worked out before you start spinning
anything up that you want to have that isn't completely temporary. From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edwin 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:
Thank you all for your replies, Edwin |