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Collapsing Windows domains within same forest

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by mschuljak

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what tools are available for collapsing Windows 2003 domains. We have several child domains within our forest and would like to collapse them all into our parent domain. This will o obviously cause a DNS nightmare. Any input would be appreciated since it doesn't seem to come up with much in my web searches. Thanks.

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by cg it

what your doing. your resturcturing the domains within a forest.

Depending upon how complex the forest and domain structure is [how many users, GPOs, computer accounts] the process can be painless or a headache.

here's a Technet artilce on migrating

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/229b4755-d8fd-43da-92f1-08d3673d1f2b1033.mspx?mfr=true

one on removing a domain

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/35b7dd87-d797-4fee-a7cb-e94fd93523b01033.mspx?mfr=true

and merging the DNS namespace

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/1550ce28-505e-42a4-ae83-df3b60312d761033.mspx?mfr=true

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