ptwilliams
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Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:17 am Post subject:
Re: Promote a child domain to new forest root |
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Chris' answer is correct, of course, but I'll briefly elaborate if I may...
In order to remove a child domain you have to demote all DCs (or simply turn
them off and perform a cleanup using ntdsutil.exe). By doing this you are
left with a bunch of member servers. You then need to disjoin these from
the domain. Once disjoined, you've a bunch of standalone machines. A new
forest root can be created but it has to be created from scratch. Which
means you'll lose all accounts, etc.
Therefore the only real option is, as Chris said, to create a new domain,
establish a trust and migrate. Then you can remove the old domain.
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"Chriss3 [MVP]" <noSpamHere@chrisse.se> wrote in message
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Hello Simon.
The only available option you have is to migrate our existing resources in
the child domains, to new domains in new separated forests.
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Regards
Christoffer Andersson
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
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"simon" <simon@discussions.microsoft.com> skrev i meddelandet
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| Quote: | My company is made up of a group of autonomous business divisions.
We currently have a Windows 2003 Active consisting of a single forest with
child domains for each division.
If we were to sell off a division can we remove that divisions domain from
our forest and leave it some how 'stand alone' as a new forest root
domain.
Regards
Simon Merry |
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