Using ADMT to migrate service accounts on workstations

From: John Strachan (Strachan_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:37:02 -0700

Migrating workstations from NT4 to Win2003 domain.
Each workstation runs a Sophos service using a domain account.
I need to migrate workstations in batches.
We are using password migration.

If I use the service account migration tool, I assume the procedure is:
1. For a batch of workstations, run service account translation wizard.
2. Migrate the service account to the new domain
3. Migrate the workstations to the new domain

This would presumably work, except that when I migrate the service account,
it does NOT keep the previous password. (Password migration works fine for
normal users, so I assume this is by design). When I migrate the next batch
of workstations and remigrate the service account, the password for the
service account changes and the service on all the previously migrated
workstations (which are still configured with the old password) fails!

I can see no documentation at all on migrating service accounts on
workstations. They all refer to member servers, where you can manually change
a service passwords. Ths isn't an option with several hundred workstations.

Thanks in advance
John

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