New Features in Windows Server 2003
Only a few of the new Windows Server 2003 features have a direct impact on Active Directory architecture. Those that do, however, give a lot more flexibility to your designs than was available in Windows 2000. Here are those features:
Rename capabilities. Domains now can be renamed and their parent/child relationships changed. This helps restructure a forest following a reorganization within a company. Domains cannot be dynamically split off to form their own forests, however, nor can domains from one forest be merged as a unit into another forest. Domain controllers can be renamed as well.
Federations. A new trust type called Forest trust supports transitive trust relationships between domains in separate ...
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