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November 2, 2006 7:09:29 AM

Hi,

We have 2 domains(x.com and y.com) in 2 different forests.
The 2 domains are running win2k and win2k3 servers respectively.I cannot have a forest trust between the 2 domains as one of them is win2k.Can someone let me know how i can go about changing y.com to be a child domain of x.com.

Thanks.

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November 4, 2006 2:28:36 AM

if both your domains are running in mixed mode instead of native mode you should be able to setup two way transitive trusts without any issues

if one of the domains is already in native mode, you can't downgrade to mixed, you can only go from mixed to native

as for making one a child of the other to bring them into the same forest, you have to demote y.com to be a member server using dcpromo, then you'd to have promote it again using dcpromo to make it a child domain of a parent domain x.com in this case...hope you're good with dns

i don't know how well this is going to work for you, depends on many DCs are in each domain you have, it's a sketchy idea however, i'd work on getting those trusts going if i were u
November 6, 2006 2:29:02 AM

Hi,
I have already setup an external trust between win2k and win2k3 domains.The challenge is that I need to have certain mailboxes on an exchange server that is on our domain ( y.com). However, I want to still have the AD authentication on x.com domain. Guess..this should be possible as we have an external (2-way) trust.
Therefore, I installed Exchange server on our domain and tried to move the mailboxes from x.com to y.com but had no luck!!! cos I can't see the new xchange server store/server that we have on y.com when i use the "Move Mailbox" feature on x.com.

Hope this makes sense..I'm new to Windows Admin..
Appreciate any help.
November 7, 2006 12:11:03 AM

hmmm i don't know about exchange...i just know at the site where exchange will be, you need a DC there for direct global catalog access
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