MIIS or restructure??   

Hi,

The company I work for is a multinational one with it's corporate offices in 
the US and other IT independant locations in other countries (Canada, UK, 
Germany, Sweden, Netherlands...). Each of these countries has their own pre 
AD (NT) domain structure and DNS namespace (mycorp.ca, mycorp.co.uk, 
mycorp.de....)
The corporate headquarters has recently outsourced all IT for mycorp.com 
(US) and have upgraded to Windows 2003 server, AD and Exchange 2003. 
Unfortunatly the new IT group did not take into account that the other 
countries also wanted to upgrade their no longer supported NT4/Echange 5.5 
systems when it designed and implemented AD and Exchange for the U.S. and 
used a third party software to synchronize the GAL. 
From my research so far I have found only 2 realistic solutions to overcome 
this limitation and allow the other countries to upgrade to Windows and 
exchange 2003. We can use MIIS server in each country or we can migrate our 
existing domains (some NT4 and some AD in separate forests) into separate 
domain tree's within the corporate forest (makes the most sense to me...) 
Several of the countries IT groups had already purchased hardware, software 
and have deployed AD prior to knowing about the outsourcing our corporate 
headquarters now uses.
My questions are:
1) Which is the better choice, MIIS or migration betwwen forests?
2) Are there any gotcha's someones experience can help us avoid?
3) Are there another options we should explore?
4) Is it just me who thinks so or was the outsourcing group negligent for 
not planning for a global organization?

Thanks in Advance,    

Henry

date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:50:42 -0800   author:   Henry

Re: MIIS or restructure??   

1.It is always best choice to use MIIS for the synchronisation of active directory object
2.If you face any complications you can post the same question over here i will reach you with in hours
3.you need to upgrade all the environments simillar to the forest mycompany.com and all the remaining countries
    domain controllers should be Like this.


                                    Mycompany is going to be installed as the Active Directory site 

Mycompany.uk    Mycompany.in    Mycompany.sg    Mycompany.com    Etc....
4.outsourcing group neligence... for not planning properly and at the same time you should provide the project spec for them to setup the 
globalisation

Thanks,
Haris.

"Henry"  wrote in message news:96699E63-B4FD-408B-AEE8-12A7AC8E1A7A@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> 
> The company I work for is a multinational one with it's corporate offices in 
> the US and other IT independant locations in other countries (Canada, UK, 
> Germany, Sweden, Netherlands...). Each of these countries has their own pre 
> AD (NT) domain structure and DNS namespace (mycorp.ca, mycorp.co.uk, 
> mycorp.de....)
> The corporate headquarters has recently outsourced all IT for mycorp.com 
> (US) and have upgraded to Windows 2003 server, AD and Exchange 2003. 
> Unfortunatly the new IT group did not take into account that the other > countries also wanted to upgrade their no longer supported NT4/Echange 5.5 
> systems when it designed and implemented AD and Exchange for the U.S. and 
> used a third party software to synchronize the GAL. 
> From my research so far I have found only 2 realistic solutions to overcome 
> this limitation and allow the other countries to upgrade to Windows and 
> exchange 2003. We can use MIIS server in each country or we can migrate our 
> existing domains (some NT4 and some AD in separate forests) into separate 
> domain tree's within the corporate forest (makes the most sense to me...) 
> Several of the countries IT groups had already purchased hardware, software 
> and have deployed AD prior to knowing about the outsourcing our corporate 
> headquarters now uses.
> My questions are:
> 1) Which is the better choice, MIIS or migration betwwen forests?
> 2) Are there any gotcha's someones experience can help us avoid?
> 3) Are there another options we should explore?
> 4) Is it just me who thinks so or was the outsourcing group negligent for 
> not planning for a global organization?
> 
> Thanks in Advance,    
> 
> Henry

date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:12:15 +0530   author:   Hari Krishna