RE: ADMT2, cannot migrate computers, access denied

From: W2K3Newbie (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:19:04 -0800

Damon,

I have already done the steps #1 and #2 exactly as you
detailed below and STILL get the same access denied
errors. The only thing I've been able to find that works
is to visit each and every workstation in the old domain
and manually place the new domain's administrator and
domain admins group into the local administrators group on
the workstation. Only then does the computer migration
wizard of ADMT2 run to sucessful completion. When it does
run to completion, it works great however, but I'm afraid
we're simply just resigned to the fate of having to touch
each and every workstation by hand to prepare it before
the migration wizard will work.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi ,
>
>Thank you for posting!
>
>According to your post, I understand that you cannot
migrate computers from
>the Winodws NT 4.0 domain to Windows 2003 domain.
>
>Since you get the "access denied" error, it should be a
permission issue.
>In addition, the domain admins group is a global group
which can only
>contain the users and groups in the local domain.
Therefore, you cannot add
>users and groups in external trusted domain into this
group. To solve the
>problem, we may perform the steps below:
>1. On Windows 2003 DC, add the Domain Admins global group
from the Windows
>NT 4.0 domain to the Administrators local group in
Windows 2003 domain.
>2. On Windows 2003 domain controller, log on by using the
Administrator
>account from Windows Nt 4.0 domain.
>3. Run ADMT tool to migrate the computers from Windows NT
4.0 domain to
>Windows 2003 domain.
>

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