RE: Using ADMT to migrate service accounts on workstations

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

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:41:02 -0700

I'm using Active Directory Migration Tool v2 (in case you hadn't guessed!)

"John Strachan" wrote:

> 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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