Removing domain from non-existant parent domain

[Guest]

This company was purchased and added to new company's network as a child
domain. They are child.parent.com They have since split from the parent
company and no work was done to remove them from the domain before
connections and ties were cut. They have Windows 2000 server. What is the
best way to clean up AD and remove all ties from the parent domain and make
them just child.com? We are planning eventually to add a Win2003 Server, but
not immediately.

 

[Enkidu]

This company was purchased and added to new company's
network as a child domain. They are child.parent.com.
They have since split from the parent company and no work
was done to remove them from the domain before
connections and ties were cut. They have Windows 2000
server. What is the best way to clean up AD and remove
all ties from the parent domain and make them just
child.com? We are planning eventually to add a Win2003
Server, but not immediately.

There's no easy way to get out of that situation. The best
way would probably be to create a new domain and migrate the
resources to it. I don't think that you can use the standard
migration tools, because they would presumably want to
retain the Domain relationship that exists.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

There's no easy way to get out of that situation. The best
way would probably be to create a new domain and migrate the
resources to it. I don't think that you can use the standard
migration tools, because they would presumably want to
retain the Domain relationship that exists.

Cheers,

Cliff

Cliff, ADMT should be fine to migrate over, since it uses the NetBIOS name
of the source domain.

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[Guest]

Thanks.
If the parent domain was still present would it be possible?

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

Thanks.
If the parent domain was still present would it be possible?

I don't see why not since ADMT is not looking for the EA or any FSMOs up
there. Besides, as I mentioned, it uses the source NetBIOS domain name
anyway.

Ace

 

[Enkidu]

In

Cliff, ADMT should be fine to migrate over, since it uses the
NetBIOS name of the source domain.

Cool, that's the way to go then. I stand corrected.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

Cool, that's the way to go then. I stand corrected.

Cheers,

Cliff

I just wanted to mention it just in case.


Ace