Re: NT to AD Migration Help Please!

Hello,

Try these helpful links.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325379
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5bLN%5d;555040

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Ken Aldrich
DSRAZOR for Windows
Visual Click Software, Inc.
www.visualclick.com

"Enkidu" <enkidu.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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John wrote:
Please Help! I am going to explain the situation. We have a NT Domain in
place that is running great. However, being one of the Administrators I
am in fear that NT is no longer supported and these are old Servers. A
company wants to come in and charge us $$$$$$ to upgrade for us. So my
company is hesitant on moving forward. I believe I might be able to go
from Win NT Domain to Win 2K AD Domain on my own with some help.

What do I need to do? I would like to keep the NT Domain running, until I
am sure the AD Side is up and going ok. Don't really want to touch any of
the Servers in place now. So I guess what I am asking is, can I setup a
brand new Dell Server with Win2K on it with Active Directory installed,
join it to the NT Domain? Then maybe throw in there a few test Users and
see how it is going? Then once I am confident that the Ad is working and
running move to the AD. I am fairly confident I can do it I just need
some help!
It doesn't work that way. You cannot join a DC running AD to a Windows NT
Domain.

Your options are:

1) Upgrade your NT4 Domain. You could do this by installing a new machine
and putting NT4 on it and make it a BDC in the NT4 Domain. Then promote it
to PDC in the NT4 Domain. Install Win2k or Win2k3 on the new NT4 PDC and
promote it to DC (you can do it in one step) and you have an AD Domain.
Then progressively upgrade the old NT4 servers. When you have none left,
switch to native mode.

2) Build a new AD Domain (one DC to start with) and use ADMT and other
tools to migrate the users etc over to the new Domain. When you have no
users or resources on the old Domain shut it down (or do it progressively
as you go).

Either way you need to do a LOT of research and learning. Look around for
books and courses and search the Web, particularly the Microsoft site.
Plan it out and TAKE BACKUPS!!!

Cheers,

Cliff


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