Migrating NT4 and 2000 Servers to new 2003 Active Directory Domain

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I have successfully migrated most all of our 3000 users and workstations to
our new domain structure and am getting read to migrate approximately 75
servers. To help prep for this I am having a meeting with our developers and
dba's to learn more about each server's environment.

I was wondering if you might have any suggestions on questions I should ask
them or have insight to known troubleshooting issues. I am concerned about
the system accounts SQL runs on -- some are local and some are domain
account. Also, when I migrated workstations with a personal SQL server,
often times, SQL had to be reinstalled as it did not recognize the user and
the one who installed it originally. Will this happen on the servers? I also
encountered this issue with Palm Desktop installs and sometime MS Office.

If they used integrated windows authentication with the old domain global
groups, will that automatically translate to the migrated globabl group, or
will the dba's have to change it manually? If they translate, will I
encounter a problem once I turn off SID history?

I can't really create this environment in a lab. Many of these systems
support our county hospital and clinics and don't tolerate downtime very well.

Thank you.
Kimberly


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