Hi,
I have been tasked with getting a small business domain streamlined and consistent with its setup following a migration from 2 small offices into 1 larger office.
Following the move of the hardware i now need to integrate both setups and this is where my question comes in.
We have 1 server 2003 machine (soon to be replaced with 2008 or 2012) and 1 server 2008 machine and i need to know if i will come up with any major issues if i add the 2008 machine to the domain as it currently workgrouped
The 2003 machine is the domain controller and file storage and the 2008 is purely file storage both have raid enclosures attached via SAS.
If I add this machine to the domain will it affect the setup and make any changes or more importantly lose files. ( I do have backups but it would be better if I didn't have to recover from them).
My thoughts are that it should just add to the domain and continue as normal as any services that need to run all run automatically and run as system.
I hope this makes sense but i just need a second opinion on this before I potentially give myself a rather large headache and potentially an extra weekend without sleep trying to undo everything.
Many thanks