Re: Join existing tree to forest

my first impression is that you already have some sites/locations with AD
and you are installing a new AD and you want those existing sites/locations
to be part of the new AD...

if true, you CANNOT cut-and-paste an AD domain, AD site, OUs or whatever
from one forest into the other forest...

the only good way to go is MIGRATION

see:
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2006/12/27/Migrating-stuff-with-ADMTv3.aspx

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<michael.p.middleton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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