Moving a Child domain into a new forest

[Stevehewitt]

Hi All,

I have domain.internal and a subdomain of that (so on the same tree) of test.domain.internal.

Problem is that the test domain should not be in any way connected to our current domain or forest - so I'd like to move it into it's own forest as a root domain.

The MS remdom tool doesn't do this, I can only move the domain into another tree - not another forest.

Any know any good articles on this sort of this or even experience would be great!

Cheers,




Steve.

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[markdmac]

DCPROMO one of the DCs from it out of the domain. Then DCPROMO it again to make it a DC for a new Domain/Forest.

If you need to save accounts int he test domain use ADMT to migrate them and then join the other DCs to the new domain.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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