Re: New Company New Domain

=?Utf-8?B?SGlsbGFyeQ==?= says...
> Hello,
>
> I have two existing companies that are merging into one new company name.
> Each old company has two A/D 2003 domain controllers and 1 Exchange 2003
> email server. They want all new equipment and I have to build two new domain
> controllers with new hardware and the new company name. The different
> organizations will be done by OU under the new domain.
>
> How would I transfer the old users from both domains by retaining their
> SID's. I don't care about the GPO's in the old domains I am creating ones
> from scratch.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>

Hello Hillary,

you can move the accounts using the Active Direcotry Migration Tool (ADMT) -
Version 3 has been recently released. You can not keep SIDs when migrating
between domains (the SID has a domain-part which needs to be specific to the
domain) however if the target-domain runs in Windows 2000 native or Windows
Server 2003 mode ADMT will copy the SID in the SID-History Attribute which will
make sure that your users still have access to their resources.

Active Directory Migration Tool Overview
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/activedirectory/admt.asp

Domain Migration Cookbook (see Ch. 9 & 10 for ADMT)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?
url=/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/deploy/cookbook/cookchp1.asp

326480 How to Use Active Directory Migration Tool Version 2 to Migrate from
Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326480

Download Details: Active Directory Migration Tool v3.0
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6f86937b-533a-466d-
a8e8-aff85ad3d212&displaylang=en

--
Gruesse - Sincerely,

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
.

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