Building new domain

From: Wayne (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 08:00:46 -0700

Hi,
My client wishes to start over fresh with his AD/domain,
that is - rebuild it from the ground up. He has about 80
users in the main office, and 3 small remote sites. The
remote sites are all on fast links and different subnets,
with cisco routers taking care of Nat, so I don't have to
deal with setting up sites. He wishes to use his existing
domain name, so I do not see how I can build the new AD in
parallel with the old. The new system will have 5 DCs, 2
at main office and 1 at each remote site. Additionally I
have to build a new 2000 exchange server, SQL 7 server and
application server to replace his existing machines.
So...all DCs and application servers will be replaced, but
all workstations will remain. Will I have to remove all
of the workstations from the domain and then rejoin them
to tne new domain? (the domain name will be the same, but
we want a fresh AD) We are going to start fresh for the
mailboxes, that is have the users back up to PSTs, build
new exchang/mail boxes, then set them up in outlook.
Other then involving a bunch of grunt work, what are some
of my options? Scripting? - I have very little experience
here. Any suggestions for planning, etc will be greatly
apprecated.
Thanks - Wayne

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