Looking for some advice on One site two domains...

We are in the process of migrating users from one domain (domain A) to
another (Domain B), so at the site there are aboout 20 pc's on Domain A. I
wanted to have users from Domain A use DNS from domain B but when I do that
all of the pc's experience high network latency, unc's take forever to
resolve etc.

Just looking for some suggestions on how to gradually migrate these users
off of DomainA and onto DomainB.

Thanks

Hello Movah,

You have to use the domain DNS servers where the machines belong to.

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Meinolf Weber
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> We are in the process of migrating users from one domain (domain A) to
> another (Domain B), so at the site there are aboout 20 pc's on Domain
> A. I wanted to have users from Domain A use DNS from domain B but
> when I do that all of the pc's experience high network latency, unc's
> take forever to resolve etc.
>
> Just looking for some suggestions on how to gradually migrate these
> users off of DomainA and onto DomainB.
>
> Thanks
>

"Movah" <> wrote in message
news:A4CF8F72-BC47-46A7-8828-...
> We are in the process of migrating users from one domain (domain A) to
> another (Domain B), so at the site there are aboout 20 pc's on Domain A.
> I
> wanted to have users from Domain A use DNS from domain B but when I do
> that
> all of the pc's experience high network latency, unc's take forever to
> resolve etc.
>
> Just looking for some suggestions on how to gradually migrate these users
> off of DomainA and onto DomainB.
>
> Thanks
>
>


During the migration process, while the domainA machines are still part of
domainA, they must only use domainA's DNS servers, as Meinolf implied. If
you select to use domainB's DNS, then they can't find their own domain
controllers for logon, authentication, etc. If, and assuming you are moving
to a whole new domain/forest with a new AD DNS domain name and NetBIOS name,
you can use domainB's DNS server, but you must create domainA's zone on that
server. Make sure the DCs in domainA get registered into their zone on the
new zone in domainB's server, then you can change them all to domainB's DNS
server.

I hope that makes sense.


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