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by afrinetsurfing

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hi all,

am wanting to upgrade my domain controller. how do i pull all the users off of the old dc and put them on to the new dc? any asistance would save me from going stak raving loony.

thanks

steve

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by lost_one

You could replicate it to the new DC, that might be the easiest way.

I think this should be posted in Technical Q&A.

by scott

Are you upgrading the OS in the process? Do you want to have the same name on the "new dc" as you do the "old dc"? What are the os's?

I have done exactly what you are wanting to do at least 4 times in the last year. This hasn't been the norm, but I gotta brag. We had a client that had a 2000 server w/AD and bought a new server complete with Windows 2003. They wanted the new server to have the same name as the old server when all was said and done. Shares had to stay the same. DHCP and DNS had to be moved over to the new server as well. Not to mention me not wanting to re-create 75 users. Well, I successfully did this from home via a vpn connection one night, and the client didn't know it for about a week.

On another occassion, it was a nightmare. About 3 out of the 4 I have done I have had little to no problems with.

Scott

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