Hi all,

I have a current SPS2003 installation in Domain A. If I introduce a new Domain B with a two way trust between domains can I have users from Domain B access the SharePoint installation/portal on the servers residing in Domain A?

The more detailed scenario in my particular case is that we are moving to a new AD. The existing AD is W2K3 as is the new one - we are just changing the domain name and a few other bits and pieces (though nothing that should affect SharePoint).

User and Groups, retaining SID information (ID and history), are being migrated across to the new AD. Users are being transferred to the new AD in stages over the period of a few weeks though both those users who have been migrated to the new AD (Domain B) and those still in the old AD (Domain A) will need access to the SharePoint portal.

The SharePoint portal will remain resident in the old domain (Domain A) until all users have been migrated over to the new AD at which point the SPS2003 servers will also be moved across.

I plan to use the SPSAdm.exe tool which shipped with SP2(?) to make the changes to the prefix (ie:<newdomainname>\<username>) of the exiting user names in the SharePoint DB to reflect the new AD name when we migrate a user across. Any advice here also welcome.

So basically I will end up with some users with the old domain name prefixing their user name (ie: Domain A) and some users with the new domain name prefixing their domain name (ie: Domain B). With the eventual intention that once all users have been migrated to the new Domain (B) the SharePoint DB will only contain user names for those users in that domain (Domain B).

I hope this makes sense - any assistance much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,


Simon