Situation: I am part of a large organization with many departments. Because the organization was slow to adopt Windows Server technology and AD structures, I have always administered our department through a separate Windows server (currently 2003) configured as a separate domain under a separate forest. Now my organization has started to develop its own AD structure and it wants any and all departmental servers to be in a single domain, and for all users to log into a single domain. We are not even going to be represented as a separate domain in the forest. My user (which will now be a part of the single domain) will be given rights to the user accounts that represent our department. I have a new machine to act as our server, so I will be setting it up without disrupting current services.
Question: Most of the services that I provide to my department are in the form of ASP.NET web applications that report on data from SQL server databases on our server and Oracle databases running on other servers. If our server is just another server under the oranizations single domain, and if our users are logging in to the organizations single primary login DC, and if our server is not providing DNS to our users etc. etc. Will there be any adverse affects regarding my being able to provide the services I mentioned? I have never administered a Windows 2003 server that wasnt providing DNS.
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