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Topic Last Modified: 2010-03-26

Use the Enable-CsAdForest cmdlet to prepare the forest for Communications Server 2010. After you run forest preparation, you must verify that global settings have been replicated before running domain preparation.

To use cmdlets to prepare the forest

  1. Log on to a computer that is joined to a domain as a member of the DomainAdmins group in the forest root domain.

  2. Open the Communications Server Management Shell console, and then run:

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    Enable-CsAdForest [-GroupDomain <FQDN of the domain in which to create the universal groups>]

    For example:

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    Enable-CsAdForest -GroupDomain domain1.contoso.com

    If you do not specify the GroupDomain parameter, the value defaults to the local domain. If universal groups were created previously in a domain that is not the default domain, you must specify the GroupDomain parameter explicitly.

  3. Wait for Active Directory replication to complete, or force replication to all domain controllers listed in the Active Directory Sites and Services snap-in for the forest root domain controller, before running domain preparation.

To verify that forest preparation was successful

  1. Log on to a computer that is joined to a domain as a member of the DomainAdmins group in the forest root domain.

  2. Open the Communications Server Management Shell console, and then run:

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    Get-CsAdForest [-GroupDomain domain1.contoso.com]

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