Windows

A large number of questions here:

Domains within the same Active Directory forest have trusts automatically. Are you planning on creating a new AD forest?

Are any of these servers FSMOS?

You mentioned moving the PDC emulator, but not the Infrastructure Master or RID Master (aka the GUID Hander Outer). Are they on another server?

What is the DNS namespace configuration in the forest? Is it contiguous, meaning the domains all have the root domain in the name? Example:

Root domain is named X and child is y,; thus, the child domain's DNS name is y.x.com.

Or is it discontiguous? Using the example above, this would lead to x.com and y.com.

Are any of these servers Small Business Server? You cannot rename domains on the fly with this product.

Do you have rights on the forest to put in a new domain?

And putting up a new domain will mean that you need to also create global catalogs.

It will not matter which domain the new Exchange 2003 servers goes into, as you can only have one Exchange organization per forest. If you are attempting to get a new domain name for mail delivery, it would be easier to set up a virtual SMTP domain. If you need a new domain name AND a new Exchange 2003 server, just put up a new SMTP virutal domain name and Exchange server in your current domain. Then do a mailbox move.

Hi

Thanks for responding.

This is a new forest/domain that is being created. At present all the roles are on the server opresently called ABC.

The DNS namespace is sdiscontigous, old domain is TEST.COM new domain space is NEW.COM.

I would create an external forest trust to allow the transfer of information of the two domains.

The Server which is presently called ABC2, which is located in the old domain. I would like to make this the primary exchange server in the new domain/forest TESTING.COM. How would I do this.

In order for me to move the mailboxes I would need to install Exchange on a system in the new domain.

How do I satisfy both of these requirements.