Forest membership question

I have a domain

abc.com

with a number of servers and workstations at my office and at a branch
office I have

branchoffice.abc.com

But not installed as a forest member, is the fact that they both belong to
the same domain (sads.com) and that I have set up a trust between them
enough to make the branch and the office part of the same forest or is there
more to it than that?

If there is more (and I suspect that there is) can the domain rename
functionality be used to make the branch a member of the head office forest?

Or is my only recourse to reinstall AD branch office whilst connected to the
head office network.

I want to use DFS across this link ...

many thanks all,

jON

"Jon Rowlan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> I have a domain
>
> abc.com
>
> with a number of servers and workstations at my office and at a branch
> office I have
>
> branchoffice.abc.com
>
> But not installed as a forest member, is the fact that they both
> belong to the same domain (sads.com) and that I have set up a trust
> between them enough to make the branch and the office part of the same
> forest or is there more to it than that?
>
> If there is more (and I suspect that there is) can the domain rename
> functionality be used to make the branch a member of the head office
> forest?
>
> Or is my only recourse to reinstall AD branch office whilst connected
> to the head office network.
>
> I want to use DFS across this link ...
>
> many thanks all,
>
> jON
>
>
>
I think you have to reinstall AD -- there is accurate information in the
Help about how to create a child domain, and if you follow it things will
work correctly.

There are also a lot of great resources here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...tory/activedir
ectory/default.mspx

hmmm ... I rather thought that may be the case.

I'll have to start over ....

Many thanks,

jON

"FenderAxe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Jon Rowlan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:#(E-Mail Removed):
>
>> I have a domain
>>
>> abc.com
>>
>> with a number of servers and workstations at my office and at a branch
>> office I have
>>
>> branchoffice.abc.com
>>
>> But not installed as a forest member, is the fact that they both
>> belong to the same domain (sads.com) and that I have set up a trust
>> between them enough to make the branch and the office part of the same
>> forest or is there more to it than that?
>>
>> If there is more (and I suspect that there is) can the domain rename
>> functionality be used to make the branch a member of the head office
>> forest?
>>
>> Or is my only recourse to reinstall AD branch office whilst connected
>> to the head office network.
>>
>> I want to use DFS across this link ...
>>
>> many thanks all,
>>
>> jON
>>
>>
>>
> I think you have to reinstall AD -- there is accurate information in the
> Help about how to create a child domain, and if you follow it things will
> work correctly.
>
> There are also a lot of great resources here:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...tory/activedir
> ectory/default.mspx
>