Re: Multiple Domains

From: Danny Sanders (Danny.Sanders_at_NO-SPAMcpcmed.org)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:29:17 -0700

I would move them into your existing domain.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"Dennis Jones" <DennisJones@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:62DD3159-34BA-4045-95C2-ECCCB24DE548@microsoft.com...
> Unforutunately this option will not work. These domains are in completely
> seperate Exchange Organizations. We want to bring them into our Exchange
> organization so we can share Free/Busy information as well as have them in
> the GAL..With this in mind,
>
> Create a seperate domain or collapse them into our existing domain?
>
> "Danny Sanders" wrote:
>
>> I would start with creating a trust between the two domains. If users in
>> both domains can access what they need in either domain, leave the trust
>> in
>> place until a more compelling reason comes along to change things.
>>
>> hth
>> DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
>>
>> "Dennis Jones" <DennisJones@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:7F1172AD-0A1D-4D2A-90BA-F4178D47B9DC@microsoft.com...
>> > My company is in process of bringing in another company into our
>> > network
>> > architecture. I'm not sure whether or not we should bring them into our
>> > domain or create another domain within the forest. Here is the specs.
>> >
>> > Our domain is currently running Windows 2003 and houses approximately
>> > 4000
>> > users with 12 Exchange 2003 server in the domain. There is no root
>> > domain
>> > in
>> > the tree. We just have one domain and all users are in this domain. The
>> > company we are bringing into our environment has 300 users, a file and
>> > print
>> > server, a windows 2000 domain, and an Exchange server.
>> >
>> > We will have a frame relay connection going to this other facility. My
>> > question is do we create another domain in the forest or do we collapse
>> > 300
>> > users into our existing domain.
>> >
>> > My gut is telling me to just collapse these users into the existing
>> > domain.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for the help!
>>
>>
>>

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