Re: Automate joining new domain

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Hi Rebecca

This is really great for me ! By the way, there are a Exchange 2003 Ent.
exisit on our network under DomainA. Can you please also advise what is the
best approch to transfer all the mailboxes and public folder to a Exchange
2003 Ent. under DomainB please ?

Please note that there are no any connection betweeen DomainA and DomainB
except for they are in the same network.

Thank you in advance !

Cheers
William

""Rebecca Chen [MSFT]"" <v-rebc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:plmieWveFHA.4856@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi William,
>
> If you plan to migration 50 clients from domainA to domainB, you can just
> use ADMT tool to achieve the migration goal. I would like to list the
> following brief steps for your reference:
>
> 1. Create a two-way trust between the domainA and domainB
>
> 2. Installing ADMT on the target domainB, and run computer wizard, user
> account wizard etc to migration users, computers and services to domainB.
> Please pay attention to the following factors:
>
> 1) Migraion Order, the following article has addressed the migration
> order:
> Migration of a Windows NT 4.0 Account Domain to Active Directory
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/deploy/cookbook
> /cookchp9.mspx
>
> The accounts and objects migration sequence have been addressed in Figure
> 9.8
>
> 2): Local user profile migration is always put into the consideration.
> When
> you perform user account migration, please check "local user profile" as
> described in the article below:
>
> Remigrating User Accounts and Workstations in Batches
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/deploy
> guide/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/de
> ployguide/en-us/dssbi_reer_zgwe.asp
>
> I strongly recommend you take a look at the following articles before you
> take any action:
> Active Directory Migration Tool Overview
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/activedirectory/admt.
> asp
>
> How to Use Active Directory Migration Tool Version 2 to Migrate from
> Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326480
>
> 326480:How to Use Active Directory Migration Tool Version 2
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326480
>
>
> You can download ADMT from the link below:
> Windows 2000 Active Directory Migration Tool
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/tools/admt/default.asp
>
> In addition, backup your original DC system is always a recommended way
> for
> security reason.
>
> If you have any questions such as file server migration, please feel free
> to post back.
>
> HTH!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rebecca Chen
>
> MCSE2000 MCDBA CCNA
>
>
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
> Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
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>>From: "Wi" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: Automate joining new domain
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>>There are about 50 PCs running on Win2k & WinXP and were joined to a
>>domain
>>called - domainA.com. And recently, I set-ed up a new domain separately
> from
>>the
>>exisiting active-directory and named it - domainB.com.
>>
>>Well, I am now going to migrate all the PCs from domainA.com to
> domainB.com.
>>Do you guys have any idea what is the best way to do it ? Or any
>>documentation for me to follow ?
>>
>>Thanks
>>William
>>
>>
>>
>


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