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"Phil Sigley" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2ddae01c46a44$f536dbb0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >In news:cd42f0$ntj$1@titan.btinternet.com,
> >Phil Sigley <nospam@btinternet.com> asked for help and I
> offered my
> >suggestions below:
> >> Yes it will be getting rid of the
> allsaints.tameside.sch.uk domain my
> >> instrctions are to get rid of it and set up
> allsaints.tameside.sch.uk
> >> again with pupil.allsaints.tameside.sch.uk as a child
> of this domain
> >> on the new servers. All clients will then be added to
> the child
> >> domain. This is what i dont know how to do, do i remove
> DC! and DC2
> >> and just start afresh, no data needs to be kept so i
> could. Or is
> >> there a better way?
> >
> >As long as allsaints.tameside.sch.uk is the parent and
> there are no current
> >child domains under it, and if you don't have anything
> else on there, no
> >user accounts, groups, etc.
> >
> >I assume you are not running an Exchange and if so, and
> you want to delete
> >whatever users, you can use the Exmerge tool to pull the
> mailboxes out into
> >PSTs to use them for the new domain users.
> >
> >Start fresh is the best way if you can do so.
> >
> >
> >> I was going to make X and Y DCs for
> >> allsaints.tameside.sch.uk and demote DC1 and DC2 but i
> want to create
> >> this child domain to keep things a bit tidier.
> >
> >Install DNS on each machine to be the DC
> >Point each DC's DNS in IP properties to its partner
> DC/DNS first, then
> >itself for the second entry.
> >Then promote the first as a new domain in a new forest
> called
> >allsaints.tameside.sch.uk domain.
> >Then promote the other machine as a replica DC in this
> domain.
> >
> >Then setup the machines for the child domain, pupil.
> >Point their DNS settings to the two above DNS above.
> >Promote them as a new child domain under the allsaints
> domain.
> >Then once the first one is done, promote the other
> machine.
> >
> >If pupil is across a WAN link, we can optimize DNS with
> delegations, but I
> >think you have it all in one building and doing this for
> security, since
> >domains are security boundaries anyway.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Admin is just admin?!?!? that is its full domain name
> it is the root
> >> of a seperate forest (i think, im not well up on DNS),
> the story of
> >> why is a long one but to cut it short it was built
> offsite and named
> >> the same as the domains i run, this caused big trouble
> on the network
> >> at the time i remember, eventually when my domain is
> set up as
> >> described i want them to make it a child of
> >> allsaints.tameside.sch.uk. This to me seems logical,
> what do you
> >> think???
> >
> >Seems that if it's in a separate forest, which according
> to what you're
> >saying, and you want it to be a child of allsaints, then
> that's fine, but it
> >has to be installed from scratch as a file, just can't
> move it over and make
> >it a child, which I'm sure you probably already know that
> part!
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks for the help sp far
> >>
> >> Phil Sigley
> >
> >Hope I understood everything and was able to help out.
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Regards,
> >Ace
> >
> >Please direct all replies ONLY to the Microsoft public
> newsgroups
> >so all can benefit.
> >
> >This posting is provided "AS-IS" with no warranties or
> guarantees
> >and confers no rights.
> >
> >Ace Fekay, MCSE 2003 & 2000, MCSA 2003 & 2000, MCSE+I,
> MCT, MVP
> >Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
> >
> >HAM AND EGGS: A day's work for a chicken;
> >A lifetime commitment for a pig.
> >--
> >=================================
> >
>
> Thankyou, this has cleared things up for me somewhat, I
> will follow this through and see what happens. Hopefully
> it will go smoothly. Should do as i am on one site and not
> a WAN and we dont run exchange.
>
> As for admin it is about to have all the clients moved
> over to xp from NT and a totally new version of MIS
> software that runs on it is to be installed so i shall see
> about getting it made a child then.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help again, i would be very stuck
> witout you.
>
> Regards
>
> Phil Sigley
Sorry one last thing, do i need at least three servers to do what i want? or
can i use dns to create the parent and child domain on one server promote
that server as DC for the child and add the second server as second DC in
the child domain? is this possible? or would i need at least one server to
run as DC for allsaints.tameside.sch.uk and my two new servers as DCs for
pupil.allsaints.tameside.sch.uk.
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