Re: Building new domain

From: Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP] (cwshultz_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:42:41 -0400

Wayne,

What are the reasons that your client wants to rebuild? Maybe this is the
real issue....

One possible method would be the run ldifde on one of your current Domain
Controllers with all of the switches to get the user account objects and the
correct 'fields' and another time for the groups to .ldf files. You could
use ExMerge for the mailboxes ( this creates user1.pst, user2.pst,
user3.pst files ). It is generally suggested to not run ExMerge on the
Exchange Server itself ( due to the high 'resources' used during ExMerge -
but if you are doing this after hours.... ). For the user files and folders
I suspect that a good backup would be in order. Then you could wipe an
load. Once you have the Servers set up ( sorry, can not be of any help with
SQL ) you would simply import the .ldf files ( which would create your user
account objects and your groups - naturally do the users first....and you
could do this all as one file - I just like to separate them where
possible ) and import the .pst files ( from the initial ExMerge process ) to
populate your mailboxes. You could then do a restore from backup ( you
would simply choose To another location... and then specify the location )
for the user's files and folders. This would not really help you, though,
with the permissions that were in-place.

Also, you would have to join each WINNT, WIN2000 and WIN XP Pro system to
the 'new' domain. Which is going to create a little bit of work for you.
You could possibly look at netdom ( a part of the Support Tools ) to help
with this. Additionally, you are going to have a problem with the user
profiles. Well, actually, this is not a problem. Just make sure that no
one stores anything locally ( read: that everything is stored on the File
Server ). You will have to determine if you are going to walk to each
workstation, log on as user1, then log off as user1 and log on as the local
Administrator ( or a member of the Domain Admins ) and - via Windows
Explorer - copy the user profile for user1 from the 'old' domain to the
'new' domain profile. There will invariably be a few little things (
usually shortcuts ) that will not work.

Again, this is one very simplified version of how you could do this.

By indicating that all of the remote sites are connected via fast links are
you saying that you have not set up Sites in the Active Directory Sites and
Services? So, you have only the default 'Default-First-Site-Name' and no
others?

HTH,

Cary

"Wayne" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:816b01c495b4$9f2599f0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> 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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