Re: Migration Novell data to Microsoft Windows 2000

Hi David, I just saw this posting and am in the same scenario. Can you
explain your step 5? Replacing the guid will do what? Is it to duplicate
your production environment?
Regards
Randy

"David Savoie" wrote:

> You can actually fool the FMU into using a modified Mapping file.
> 1) In a lab use MSDSS to migrate users for a test NDS tree to a test Acrtive
> dierctory tree.
> 2) Save the mapping file. FMU needs an actual file created by MSDSS.
> 3) Use the format of the test Mapping file to generate the new mapping file
> you will use in your migration.
> 4) If you know the context of the users in both NDS and AD and all users
> exist in both directories you can easily us a VB script to generate the
> entries used in the mapping file.
> 5) You also need to replace the guid of the test mapping file with the guid
> generated by the MSDSS instance in the producion network.
>
> We had to do use this procedure because we used DIRXML to migrate the user
> accounts from Netware 5.0 to Active Directory. Since the users existed in
> both trees we did a dump from AD to create the mapping file. Since we knew
> where users existed in both trees it was easy to create the mapping.
>
>
> Cheers.
>
> David Savoie
> MCSE,CNE,CCA
>
> "Jeroen" <Jeroen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:10F97824-BB11-4A9C-97F8-B7B4DC2694BF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi Rebecca,
> >
> > Thank you for your response iam afraid you right, because i cant find
> > absolute nothing about this issue.
> >
> > We already have an existing Windows 2000 envirement. For this we dont want
> > the users get created. We only want the data and his rights.
> >
> > Do you have any suggestion how we can do this the best ?
> >
> > "Rebecca Chen [MSFT]" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Jeroen,
> > >
> > > I understand you want to ONLY migrate the files from Novell to win2k
> server
> > > and keep the right maintained, however, you don't want to migrate the
> users.
> > >
> > > According to my knowledge, we need to migrate the user frist and then
> > > migrate the files with the seucirty maintained since the file security
> > > including the user informatin. Otherwise, the file rights will not be
> > > maintained.
> > >
> > > Therefore, you need to migrate the user first and then the copy file,
> these
> > > can be done by MSDSS.
> > >
> > > Any udpate, let us get in touch!
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Rebecca Chen
> > >
> > > MCSE2000 MCDBA CCNA
> > >
> > >
> > > Microsoft Online Partner Support
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  • Re: Migration Novell data to Microsoft Windows 2000
    ... "David Savoie" wrote: ... > 1) In a lab use MSDSS to migrate users for a test NDS tree to a test Acrtive ... > 3) Use the format of the test Mapping file to generate the new mapping file ...
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  • Re: Migration Novell data to Microsoft Windows 2000
    ... You can actually fool the FMU into using a modified Mapping file. ... In a lab use MSDSS to migrate users for a test NDS tree to a test Acrtive ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.migration)