Re: migrating STS 1.0 to WSS - local users lost

From: Mike Walsh (englantilainen_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/22/04


Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:14:18 +0300

I am fairly sure that it's a known "feature" that user permissions are lost
when using smigrate. I'm sure it also says so in some MS documentation.

> Should I give up trying to "migrate" the user accounts?

Yes, I would give up.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
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"Mikkel Faarup" <mikkel.faarup@capgemini.dk> wrote in message
news:75f3945c.0409212254.136d68de@posting.google.com...
> Hi All
>
> I cannot find a solution to this issue.
>
> How is it possible to (s)migrate a site from a sts server in an old
> domain with local users to a new server running wss (not AD mode)?
>
> My results are as follows:
>
> Migration of site content works fine
> All users are lost (not recreated on the new server)
> If I create the local user accounts before the migrate, they are still
> not added to the site.
>
> Should I give up trying to "migrate" the user accounts?
>
> I found that someone was able to migrate sts users with email-ids???
> can anyone explain?
>
> Thanx in advance
> Mikkel



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