Advice on site topology

Dear All,

I would appreciate some advice on the best way to expand my domain.

1) We are taking over a new building, it's local and we have fibre links to
it. We therefore have the option of running the two networks on the same
physical network.

2) The "powers that be" would like services (Exchange, fileshares, software)
from building A (where we are now,
buildingA.organisation1.mothercompany.co.uk) to have services in building B.

3) The "powers that be" would like building B to be distinct. Ie users
should see the domain there as being called
buildingB.organisation2.mothercompany.co.uk.

4) Our forest is currently called
buildingA.organisation1.mothercompany.co.uk. The new building will be
housing a separate organisation. When we designed the domain we planned for
new buildings but not new oranisatons under our control.


The main questions are:

Would two separate Domains with Exchange run properly on the same physical
network?
-Then could I join the sites to share services?

Would it be best to have distinct networks and domains and link them in some
way?

Is there some other way of organising this??



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