Re: Combine multiple forests into one single forest???

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There are actually a few options available there, depending on the exact
requirements.
But in order to consolidate forests, you'll have to migrate. If you only
need a shared GAL and have reasons to maintain separate forests (be sure
they're really good reasons though; this is not a preferred method for a
company to use) then perhaps just synchronizing the GAL data is what you
need.

You'll want to very carefully consider your goals and requirements before
choosing.

Al

"Mark Dodd" <Mark Dodd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B09DF568-A409-461C-8E15-80EB9E3BE37B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> We have an NT 4.0 domain that we are about to upgrade to Windows 2003 and
> Active Directory. We also have two Windows 2000 Domains/Forests that are
> trusted with the NT 4.0 domain. We would like to upgrade our NT 4.0
> domain
> to Windows 2003 Active Directory and then roll our two Windows 2000
> domains
> under the newly created Windows 2003 forest. In the end we only want to
> have
> 1 Windows 2003 forest because I don't think Exchange 2003 supports
> multiple
> forests. Does anyone know if this is possible?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Dodd


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