You do forestprep only once on forest and domain prep once in each domain.
By native mode you mean Windows Server 2003 forest functionality level ?
Yes, you can add aditional child domains in your domain, but if you are in
Windows Server 2003 functionality level, all DC's need to be Windows Server
2003. You can not rename a domain that has Exchange 2000/2003 see
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822590.
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Matjaz Ladava, MCSE, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft MVP - Active Directory
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Josh said:
Thanks for the help. I have another couple of questions. If I do forest
prep and domain prep in all domains. Then get all domains and the forest
into native mode. Can I add another child dom while the forest root is
named "domain"? I was under the impression that once everything is in
native mode that it has to be renamed before joing additional child domain.
Is there any MS QB's that say this? Also If I were to get everything into
domain/forest 2003 mode. Then upgrade all of exchange to 2003 can I do the
domain rename then? Once again many thanks to anyone who can help..