Merging Domains

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Ryan

Hello,

I think this is going to be difficult, but I am hoping not...

I have 2 AD Domains (DomainXYZ.com and ABCDomain.com). Now they are
completely separate from each other. There were install as separate
forests and everything. What I want to do is is bring them in under the
same forest so that the admin from abcdomain.com can administer the
domainxyz.com com domain and etc. Now, these domains are in 2 completely
separate sites, is there anyway to do this cleanly? (i.e. no dumping AD
and then reinstalling etc, as I still need to keep the info from both
domains).

Thanks for your help,

Ryan
 
If you want to bring the two domains together in the same forest than the
simplest way might be to create a brand new domain in one of the forests and
then use ADMTv2 to migrate the user and computer accounts over.

If you just want to allow admin rights between the domains and aren't too
bothered about what forest they are in you could create a trust between the
two forests. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=309682
 
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