Date: 03/06/06 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: database

so - here's the scenario.

production is in forest 1
test has been set up in forest 2
100+ gpo objects in the production environment


test environment naming convention is: test.production environment's name

now, what i want to do is mimic the AD structure of the production environment in the test environment... as to OU's, GPO's, accounts, permissions, etc.

how do i best go about doing this? active directory migration tool? backup the AD database and gpo object folder and copy them over? either or both not possible?

some of my questions... is any of the above possible, or do i have to manually re-create the ou's and accounts/permissions because of the test environment being a different name? or does it matter?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/35345.html