RE: ADMT v2.0 Database corruption question

From: Pere (Pere_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 02:05:02 -0700

bit more background..

The person before me on the project migrated groups from a NT4 and W2K
domain, and the groups had exactly the same name !! Therefore two groups are
showing with the same RID in the database.

When I migrated groups I now pre-fix them with the old source name so we
don't have the same issue.

Also, they tried to merge SID by migrating the W2K account..then renaming it
to the NT4 account name..and migarting the NT4 account over the top..they
seemed to think this would work..but I have my doubts.

As I posted..I have tried all this with fresh groups..still didn't work.
This is why I'm wondering if the database has somehow become confused due to
the duplicate names. The question is how to fix it, without impacting the
already migrated user accounts.

"Pere" wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, I will elaborate..
>
> We have migrated pilot users for 3 Domains..1 W2K, and 2 NT4.
>
> All the groups for the domains have been migrated first, and we are
> migrating the users in either batches or individually.
>
> The problem is with W2K Domain..
>
> User A is a member of group A in Source Domain
> Group A has been migrated across to the Target Domain
> User A is migrated(with fix group selected) but does not re-establish his
> membership of the migrated group A.
>
> *Testing*
>
> -A-
> I created a new source group and added a new source user account to it.
> I migrated the group.
> I migrated the account - membership of the group was not established in the
> target domain
>
> -B-
> I removed the test account and group
> I renamed the database so it would start a fresh one.
> I did the same as -A-, this time membership was established.
>
> We had this problem soon after the start of the migrations..but it suddenly
> started working..now it doesn't work again.
>
> The logs show nothing..the process shows adding group membeships..but
> doesn't pick them up.
>
> I'm looking at the database in Access..but nothing to show me yet why it is
> failing for this Domain.
>
> "Bob Qin [MSFT]" wrote:
>
> > Hi Pere,
> >
> > Thanks for your posting here.
> >
> > I am not very clear about the symptom you mentioned that "it doesn't pick
> > up any group memberships". Would you please provided some screen captures
> > to describe the scenario detailedly?
> >
> > In addition, is there any error in the migration log?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bob Qin
> > Microsoft Online Partner Support
> >
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> > From: "=?Utf-8?B?UGVyZQ==?=" <Pere@discussions.microsoft.com>
> > Subject: ADMT v2.0 Database corruption question
> > Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:07:04 -0700
> > Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.migration
> >
> > We appear to have a corrupt ADMT v2.0 database file.
> >
> > The problem is that when we now migrate Windows2000 user accounts for
> > one
> > domain, it doesn't pick up any group memberships(groups already
> > migrated).
> >
> > The others (NT4 domains) are working fine still.
> >
> > We have tested this with a new database, and works fine, so were
> > wondering
> > if anyone knows a way to correct the corruption without impacting the
> > already
> > migrated groups for the other domains.
> >
> >
> >

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