Help moving from NT4 to 2000 AD?

[John]

Hello, looking for some guidance or help. We have about 7 NT4 Domains all
with their own Domain Controllers with trust between each other. The domain
with the most users on it, we upgraded the PDC to Active Directory Server
and now have a Active Directory Server with 2 NT4 BDC's running in a Mixed
Mode Environment. How do I now bring in the other Nt4 Domains. So the domain
with the AD Server in Mixed Mode is the Primary or Parent Domain and all the
other domains fall under Child Domains. Does anyone have advice or a link to
what might be a good guide?

 

[Meinolf Weber]

Hello John,

At the beginning you talk about trusted domains and when you come to the
AD, you talk about child domains. A child domain is something like child.mydomain.com
when your domain name is mydomain.com. If you have trusts then normally you
talk about mydomain.com anmd yourdomain.com and his.domain.com etc. Please
clarify this situation and also if you like to have at the end one big domain
with one name.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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[John]

Well....right now we have the DELCO, PD, DA, HSA, CAADC, and DCPDOMAIN.
They are the domains we have right now. The DELCO Domain has a Active
Directory Server and two BDC's. The other domains are all still sitting at
NT Domains. And I guess the Active Directory Domain or Forest if I am right
is called co.delaware.pa.us. So what I am thinking is that you would have
co.delaware.pa.us and all the other domains would fall under that?? Or would
each have their own name? Just a little confused. What would be the best way
to approach this and get off mixed mode and onto native mode?

 

[Richard Mueller [MVP]]

It's always best to have one domain, unless you have good reasons (usually
the reasons are political) for more. It is common when migrating from NT to
consoldate into one domain.

It used to be you needed separate domains if you required different password
policies. That is no longer necessary with Server 2008.

 

[John]

Ok. So if I have 1 Domain, how do I condense all the domains down to 1 AD
Domain?

 

[Danny Sanders]

Use ADMT.

Search the MS site for the free tool.


hth
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