Rebuilding an Entire Domain
Long story short, the wrong people had administrative access to this domain. The domain is completely non-standard and as a company we have for service reasons decided to replace the entire domain.Luckily at the same time we got our customer to purchase all brand new servers. I am reaching out for some input as this chore I was assigned will be no walk in the park. I have a friend who scripts relatively well writing something that will lookup the current AD Computers and go out to each station and change the domain and DNS information. Not sure if this will be sucessful but hopefully as it will save a lot of time. I am not a scriptor and only good with infrastructure and storage.There are 5 DC's total, 2 SAN attached and clustered. 3 are stand alone with DAS. All (except the cluster) are geographically seperated and connect by a MAN.I plan to use ADMTv2 to migrate the usersQuestions:1. The have a 4TB concatenated volume currently presented to the old domain that I intend to present and concatenate with the new domain. Any way to apply rights in a more timely fashion than using xcalcs? I want to keep the old SIDs there incase this is not sucessful and I must go back to the old domain.2. 5 DC's and 5 DNS servers. All stations and servers in this domain are statically assigned. I would like to have every station point to 2 DNS server (the main cluster) and somehow those two servers can delagate the requests as to balance the load. However also if the MAN goes down then how can DNS still work?Any suggestions and ideas to make this task easier would be much appreciated.Thanks in AdvancedAdamabetzold@dominator.com.--(no spam)--
February 6th, 2008 9:41am

This topic is archived. No further replies will be accepted.

Other recent topics Other recent topics