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rmscheck
Posts:66
 | | 10/10/2008 5:04 PM |
| Hello Community,
I'm looking for a way to mass migrate a bunch of machines joined to one
domain to another domain. I'm guessing we will need to employ the use of
NETDOM? I have a few questions on this..
1) Are there other tools to accomplish this?
2) If NETDOM is the way we go, I cringe to think we will need a clear text
password in a script file, is there another way?
3) Could this be performed through a GPO?
4) A client reboot is a necessary, isnt't it?
5) How have you automated domain migrations like this?
Thanks,
Rand.
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| AFidel
Posts:71
| | 10/10/2008 5:53 PM |
| Depending on the scope of the migration (ie if it's large) I would
recommend Quest Domain Migrator. It takes care of moving the machines,
updating the user profiles, moving the users, and migrating Exchange and
SQL users and permissions.
Thanks,
Andrew
"Rand Salazar" <rmscheck08@gmail.com>
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[ActiveDir] Automate or Script Domain Member Migrations
Hello Community,
I'm looking for a way to mass migrate a bunch of machines joined to one
domain to another domain. I'm guessing we will need to employ the use of
NETDOM? I have a few questions on this..
1) Are there other tools to accomplish this?
2) If NETDOM is the way we go, I cringe to think we will need a clear
text password in a script file, is there another way?
3) Could this be performed through a GPO?
4) A client reboot is a necessary, isnt't it?
5) How have you automated domain migrations like this?
Thanks,
Rand.
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| laurahcomputing
Posts:43
| | 10/10/2008 6:17 PM |
| Or ADMT, for a free equivalent to the Quest tool.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ae279d01-7dca-413c-a9d2-b42dfb746059
For a freebie, it's surprisingly fully-featured. The Quest tool has prettier
reporting and does a bit better on doing any rollbacks of migration tasks,
but you can't beat ADMT for the pricetag.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:49 PM, <AFidel@ddrc.com> wrote:
>
> Depending on the scope of the migration (ie if it's large) I would
> recommend Quest Domain Migrator. It takes care of moving the machines,
> updating the user profiles, moving the users, and migrating Exchange and SQL
> users and permissions.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
>
> *"Rand Salazar" <rmscheck08@gmail.com>*
> Sent by: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
>
> 10/10/2008 05:01 PM Please respond to
> ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
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> To
> activedir@mail.activedir.org cc
> Subject
> [ActiveDir] Automate or Script Domain Member Migrations
>
>
>
>
> Hello Community,
>
> I'm looking for a way to mass migrate a bunch of machines joined to one
> domain to another domain. I'm guessing we will need to employ the use of
> NETDOM? I have a few questions on this..
>
> 1) Are there other tools to accomplish this?
> 2) If NETDOM is the way we go, I cringe to think we will need a clear text
> password in a script file, is there another way?
> 3) Could this be performed through a GPO?
> 4) A client reboot is a necessary, isnt't it?
> 5) How have you automated domain migrations like this?
>
> Thanks,
> Rand.
>
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| bdesmond
Posts:368
| | 10/10/2008 6:17 PM |
| Inline
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
brian@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Rand Salazar
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 4:00 PM
To: activedir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] Automate or Script Domain Member Migrations
Hello Community,
I'm looking for a way to mass migrate a bunch of machines joined to one domain to another domain. I'm guessing we will need to employ the use of NETDOM? I have a few questions on this..
1) Are there other tools to accomplish this?
[Brian Desmond] ADMT has some command line/scriptable interfaces
2) If NETDOM is the way we go, I cringe to think we will need a clear text password in a script file, is there another way?
[Brian Desmond] Yes presunably. You could scheme some sort of obfuscation scheme
3) Could this be performed through a GPO?
[Brian Desmond] I suppose with a startup script
4) A client reboot is a necessary, isnt't it?
[Brian Desmond] Yes
5) How have you automated domain migrations like this?
[Brian Desmond] Yes
Thanks,
Rand.
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| danholme
Posts:129
| | 10/15/2008 3:01 PM |
| Rand... you do know that the ADMT is free, right? The only "effect"
impacting a user will be the restart of the machine, which would be
required of course any time a machine joins another domain...
Dan
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Rand Salazar
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:42 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Automate or Script Domain Member Migrations
Thanks folks! It seems there is no easy (free) way to do this behind
the scenes.. Users will be affected. :p So much for trying to be sly,
we will have to schedule these I suppose.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Brian Desmond <brian@briandesmond.com>
wrote:
Inline
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
brian@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Rand Salazar
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 4:00 PM
To: activedir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] Automate or Script Domain Member Migrations
Hello Community,
I'm looking for a way to mass migrate a bunch of machines joined to one
domain to another domain. I'm guessing we will need to employ the use
of NETDOM? I have a few questions on this..
1) Are there other tools to accomplish this?
[Brian Desmond] ADMT has some command line/scriptable interfaces
2) If NETDOM is the way we go, I cringe to think we will need a clear
text password in a script file, is there another way?
[Brian Desmond] Yes presunably. You could scheme some sort of
obfuscation scheme
3) Could this be performed through a GPO?
[Brian Desmond] I suppose with a startup script
4) A client reboot is a necessary, isnt't it?
[Brian Desmond] Yes
5) How have you automated domain migrations like this?
[Brian Desmond] Yes
Thanks,
Rand.
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| rmscheck
Posts:66
| | 10/15/2008 3:06 PM |
| Yup.. thats what I will be using.  Thanks. I wanted to try and be sly
and migrate them invisibly.. but since we have users on laptops at all
hours, schedules will be required  The desktops arent so bad as they are
always on and we could work around them.. its the mobile users that pose
slight issues.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Dan Holme <dan.holme@intelliem.com> wrote:
> Rand… you do know that the ADMT *is* free, right? The only "effect"
> impacting a user will be the restart of the machine, which would be required
> of course any time a machine joins another domain…
>
>
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:
> ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] *On Behalf Of *Rand Salazar
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 15, 2008 8:42 AM
> *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
> *Subject:* Re: [ActiveDir] Automate or Script Domain Member Migrations
>
>
>
> Thanks folks! It seems there is no easy (free) way to do this behind the
> scenes.. Users will be affected. :p So much for trying to be sly, we will
> have to schedule these I suppose.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Brian Desmond <brian@briandesmond.com>
> wrote:
>
> *Inline*
>
> * *
>
> *Thanks,*
>
> *Brian Desmond*
>
> *brian@briandesmond.com*
>
> * *
>
> *c - 312.731.3132*
>
> * *
>
> *From:* ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:
> ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] *On Behalf Of *Rand Salazar
> *Sent:* Friday, October 10, 2008 4:00 PM
>
>
> *To:* activedir@mail.activedir.org
>
> *Subject:* [ActiveDir] Automate or Script Domain Member Migrations
>
>
>
> Hello Community,
>
>
>
> I'm looking for a way to mass migrate a bunch of machines joined to one
> domain to another domain. I'm guessing we will need to employ the use of
> NETDOM? I have a few questions on this..
>
> 1) Are there other tools to accomplish this?
>
> *[Brian Desmond] ADMT has some command line/scriptable interfaces*
>
>
> 2) If NETDOM is the way we go, I cringe to think we will need a clear text
> password in a script file, is there another way?
>
> *[Brian Desmond] Yes presunably. You could scheme some sort of obfuscation
> scheme*
>
>
> 3) Could this be performed through a GPO?
>
> *[Brian Desmond] I suppose with a startup script*
>
>
> 4) A client reboot is a necessary, isnt't it?
>
> *[Brian Desmond] Yes*
>
>
> 5) How have you automated domain migrations like this?
>
> *[Brian Desmond] Yes*
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rand.
>
>
>
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