Re: Join existing tree to forest

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If you don't want to touch their AD domains you only choice AFAIK is to use
trusts.

hth
DDS

<michael.p.middleton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I apologize if I was unclear. By sites I meant physical locations.

You can think of it as a large company purchasing 4 smaller companies.
The larger company would like to join the smaller companies to their
larger AD forest with as few changes to the smaller companies
structures as possible. Re-creating the smaller companies' AD's isn't
an option. Now, the best solution may be to run separate forests and
create trusts. I would like each of the smaller companies ADs to know
about each other's AD.

My question lays in what is everyone opinion on the best solution for
taking these 4 smaller companies with their own existing domains and
structures and putting them all together.

Thanks again for all your attention, I hope this makes it clearer.



Joe Richards [MVP] wrote:
If these "sites" are in actuality individual forests, there is no
prune/graft capability in AD. You will have to migrate users into your
new forest. If you mean something else, I am not sure what it is.

--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
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michael.p.middleton@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I will try and be as detailed and brief as possible...

I am currently managing several separate sites. In hopes to join these
sites together and minimize changes to the current sites, I am setting
up a central active directory server- this will become the forest root.
I want some advice in joining all my existing active directory sites
to the forest root while not restructuring the existing sites in
anyway.

The ultimate goal is to join the existing AD sites to the forest root
without disturbing their current configuration but allowing all the AD
server to communicate.

Thanks in advance for everyone's help.




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