Re: Going from 2 forests to 1

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Thanks for the quick response...
Yes that is what I was talking about when you asked for clarification. "I
know you can prune domains in 2003 and move 1 domain from 1 forest to
another but we are talking about an entire forest."

So does this tool actually move the smaller forest under the larger forest
and if so can it be placed in the root domain or does it copy the users and
objects from the smaller domain to the larger.
Thanks again.
-=daveg=-


"Dean Wells [MVP]" wrote:

> Your goal requires that you _migrate_ content from the smaller forest to
> the larger, many tools exist to do this including a freebie from
> Microsoft named ADMT v2 (Active Directory Migration Tool).
>
> I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say, can you elaborate
> (pruning and grafting is often misdefined under the banner of
> migration) -
>
> "I know you can prune domains in 2003 and move 1 domain from 1 forest to
> another but we are talking about an entire forest."
>
> Dean
>
> --
> Dean Wells [MVP / Directory Services]
> MSEtechnology
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>
> Daveg wrote:
> > I have a question about 2 forest and was hoping someone could help.
> > We have 2 separate forest 1 large and 1 small. I want to get rid of
> > the small forest and put the users, groups and resources into the
> > larger forest. We are running a fully raised 2003 domain. Is this
> > easy to do? Is there a merging utility or some other tool that could
> > assist or am I going to have to do this all manually. I know you can
> > prune domains in 2003 and move 1 domain from 1 forest to another but
> > we are talking about an entire forest.
> > I would think this is a common problem when companies buy other
> > companies and want to flatten there Domains.
> > Any thoughts would be great.
> > -=daveg=-
>
>
>
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