Re: How to merge AD forests upon company acquisition

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"Tom" <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We have two seperate companies with seperate AD,s and exchange servers. We
want to merge these AD forests so that we have a single Forest with one
domain and we wish to migrate Exchange to a single Exchange organization.

There is no trivial way to merge forests.

Does anybody know of a white paper that is available that explains how to
do
this?

You have two basic choices:

1) Migrate one (or both) forests into the other domain, recreating every
user account and dealing with permissions and especially
PROFILES

2) Forest Level Trust -- both Forests must be in Win2003 Forest
Functional Level
(i.e., all Win2003 DCs and level has been upgraded.)

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Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
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