Re: Moving machines and users

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Maybe it's the phrases that's confusing this a little. When you say NT,
what does that refer to for you? Is that an AD domain? What level are the
domains at?

What errors are you seeing when you attempt this?




"skip" <skip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>i shouldt have a trust issue becasue the domain that i am migrating from is
>a
> separate tree, in the domain that iam migrating to, so transitive two way
> trsut are already in palce by default. As far as DNS goes the domai n that
> i
> am migrating from has only a secondary DNS server in the entire domain
> (domainB) the forest root domain has the AD intagrated primary DNS zone
> for
> itself and domainB this DNS server updates the secondary DNS server in
> domainB. So DomainB is in the same forest as domainA so as long as domainB
> can get DNS updates from from domainA's DNS server all should be ok
>
> I would think that this would not be an issue either
>
> "Al Mulnick" wrote:
>
>> Is it possible you have a trust or name resolution issue that needs to be
>> resolved? What is the error your seeing?
>>
>>
>> "skip" <skip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > Hi Al
>> >
>> > Thanks very much for the info it was helpful, but the discussion did
>> > not
>> > mention anything about having to migrate a computer account that is
>> > already a
>> > member of the AD domain, and the users log on account or user account
>> > is a
>> > member of an NT domain. I have had no issues with migrating machine
>> > accounts
>> > and user accounts from NT to AD if both live in the NT domain. But
>> > what I
>> > am
>> > having trouble with is migrating the machine account from a separate
>> > tree
>> > in
>> > the same AD forest. For example the users log on account is in NT but
>> > hte
>> > machine account is in myADdomain.com myADdomain.com is a separate tree
>> > in
>> > the forest root. I am trying to migrate all amchines out of
>> > myADdomain.com
>> > to
>> > the foretst root domain i.e mydomain.com so i can get rid of
>> > myADdomain.com.
>> > I cannot get the profile to migrate over once i migrate the machine
>> > acount
>> > to
>> > the new domain.
>> >
>> > Any help with this would be greate
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > "Al Mulnick" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Have you seen threads like this?
>> >> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.migration/browse_frm/thread/62bd1edfc506c0cb/39b33602c40a5c7e?tvc=1&q=ADMT+profile+site:support.microsoft.com&hl=en#39b33602c40a5c7e
>> >>
>> >> You should not have to manually do anything with the profile. The
>> >> update
>> >> to
>> >> the permissions should occur during the move. What steps are you
>> >> following
>> >> if you're not seeing those results?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "skip" <skip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:EB05797F-1A55-4CC7-BD01-DB872B9F42B9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> > Hi all
>> >> >
>> >> > I have one forest two trees and two separate domains. I am going to
>> >> > be
>> >> > consolidating domains and getting rid of one eventually. I am going
>> >> > to
>> >> > follow
>> >> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555229 to
>> >> > move
>> >> > my
>> >> > users and machines. My question is Onec i move a machine and an
>> >> > account
>> >> > from
>> >> > domainA to domainB dont i still have to manually copy the users
>> >> > profile
>> >> > from
>> >> > domainB to domainA? is there another way around this? I tried ADMT
>> >> > version
>> >> > 2
>> >> > but it would not update the users profile i had to do it manually.
>> >> >
>> >> > Many thanks
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>


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