Re: Moving From Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2003 Domain

You won't be able to just rename and graft the domain onto a forest
unfortunately.
Migration of security principals and migration of group policy are two
different things.
ADMT will help with security principles.
GPMC will help with the group policy settings.

This is not a minor undertaking (I'd repeat it, but I'm lazy) especially if
no downtime is part of the requirements.

There are several planning documents available on Microsoft's web site.
Several on other vendors as well. There are many countless people that can
help you discover, plan, and execute a migration like that. Many of them are
pretty good. This might be a situation where it is worth the expense of
hiring a consultant, at least for the early stages of your project. Pushing
the buttons and executing the migration might be something you want to do
yourself.

Migration is not a minor undertaking....



"Ahmed H. Habashy" <Moody6178@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Emmanuel for the response

the question is that ADMT can Migrate Group Membership and group policies
wikth all permissions retained?

Thanks

Habashy

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"Emmanuel Antony" <EmmanuelAntony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hi,

Create a domain forest.com in a new forest,If your functional level
(both
domain as well as forest are windows 2003) then you can create cross
forest
trust between the forests.Use ADMT to migrate the user and computer
accounts.

demote the domains in the old forest once everything is perfect.
--
Emmanuel Antony


"Ahmed H. Habashy" wrote:

Hi amulnick

I'm having 3 forests 3 of them are win 2003 with exch 2003.

What I need to do is to have those 3 forests as 1 forest by changing the
forests names to only one name

As well as maintaining the objects in each forest, I will explain in
more
details to let you have a bigger image:

I have:

ForestA.com

ForestB.com

ForestC.com

And now I need to have only one big forest called Forest.com how can I
do so
without affecting the objects and the sysetm up time.

Please help or advice!

Thanks

"Al Mulnick" <amulnick_No_SPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The upgrade from NT to 2003 is pretty straightforward and relatively
painless. I'd do it like this assuming you want to maintain the
account
information:
Install the new 2003 server into the network as a domain member
server.
Install virtual server and a copy of virtual server (this is for
driver
issues. You could omit this step if you feel like your old nt4 server
could handle it). Install a NT 4 server as a BDC of the domain.
Stabilize. Transfer the PDC to the virtual nt4 server. Upgrade that
server to 2003 (this will give you the forest and domain etc.)
Stabilize.
dcpromote the 2003 server (original) to a domain controller.
Stabilize.
Add name resolution and transfer the roles to the new server.
Stabilize
(repetitive I know). You can now remove the NT 4 BDC and potentially
the
virtual nt server. Verify that all is working as expected. Was it me,
I'd
leave the virtual on line, but that's a different concept. You can
run
that on workstation class hardware if needed; it's only temporary.

Exchange - nope. You'll have to go to 2003 first if you want to
maintain
the org settings etc.

Al



"VIT" <VIT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello!
Can anyone lead us in the right direction for moving from a Windows
NT
4.0
PDC to a new Windows 2003 server with AD? We will be buying a new
server
and
installing Windows 2003 on there and then shutting down the old
Windows
NT
4.0 PDC.

We also want to go from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2007 on a new server
as
well. Is this migration possible or do we have to go to Exchange
2003
first?

What is the best way to go about these two issues? All help is
greatly
appreciated!!!!









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