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NT 4.0 Domain Migration into win 2k3 Server

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by nicholasclayg 1 view

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Greetings,
I am bidding on a project on migrating windows nt 4.0 to win2k3 server. After doing an exaustive research on my part, I cannot find the definitive answer to my Q .

My q is:
When I migrate, how the hell can I migrate all the user settings, profiles, trusts, policies etc, without compromise? 23 users 1 nt server 4.0 VPN with some ras. I was fine when I did a 3.5 to 4.0 migration, but this one has a little more stuff to it. Its a small office, and it should be straight forward. So What I would like is a general guidline on how to keep the user prof's, trusts,policies etc without being compromised by the upgrade. Then I'll spill what I did and then maybe I can see where I might go wrong, thx in advance

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by malcolm r

It depends on how you are doing the Win2k3 migration. Are you doing an in-place upgrade of the existing NT4 domain? If so, then you don't have to worry about permissions, user settings, etc. If you are doing a migration to an entirely new Win2k3 domain, you'll have to use something like the Active Directory Migration Tool to help.

Malcolm

by nicholasclayg

Well it gets more hairy too, because its a 1.1 .net framework as well. And I cannot use the AD migration until I get the domain imported with all user settings intact- the AD migration tool would be awesome if everything was new- that would be very nice indeed. Ive done some extensive research on microsofts site and called about 20 people regarding the matter, and every is like "huh" lol oh well- i still have another 34 days to make a decision.

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