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My company was recently sold and I will be neding to do some Active Directory work. &nbsp;Our domain is currently a child domain under the previous owner's domain. &nbsp;I now need to split it and put it under the new companie's domain. &nbsp;I've never seen this process let alone done it before. &nbsp;How do I go about handling this task? &nbsp;Also, I'll be needing to move all mailboxes from that child domain's Exchange 2007 system to the new owner's Exchange 2003 system while keeping the same domain name. &nbsp;Is that something that is suggested to be done before or after the AD separation and insertion?
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My company was recently sold and I will be neding to do some Active Directory work.  Our domain is currently a child domain under the previous owner's domain.  I now need to split it and put it under the new companie's domain.  I've never seen this process let alone done it before.  How do I go about handling this task?  Also, I'll be needing to move all mailboxes from that child domain's Exchange 2007 system to the new owner's Exchange 2003 system while keeping the same domain name.  Is that something that is suggested to be done before or after the AD separation and insertion?

Parent-Child domain separation

My company was recently sold and I will be neding to do some Active Directory work.  Our domain is currently a child domain under the previous owner&#39;s domain.  I now need to split it and put it under the new companie&#39;s domain.  I&#39;ve never seen this process let alone done it before.  How do I go about handling this task?  Also, I&#39;ll be needing to move all mailboxes from that child domain&#39;s Exchange 2007 system to the new owner&#39;s Exchange 2003 system while keeping the same domain name.  Is that something that is suggested to be done before or after the AD separation and insertion?

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).