howto: migrate fileserver resources from NT4 BDC to W2003 member server
- From: "Franz Schenk" <franz.schenkNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:59:38 +0100
We have to migrate 14 NT4 BDC's with a lot of fileserver resources to
Windows 2003 member servers. The domain is in Windows 2000 mixed mode
(because of all NT4 BDC's). The AD forest/domain has to be W2K, a schema
upgrade to Windows 2003 is not possible due to regulations of the holding
company.
Have discovered now that all local group ACE entries on the migrated
directories and files on the Windows 2003 member servers are without effect!
And the local groups are not visible in the ACL editor of the Windows 2003
server. Have then found a KB article Q296369 which states that domain local
groups can not be used when a Windows 2000 domain is in mixed mode (although
the KB article mention that the problem only applies to MS sharepoint portal
server 2001). It's also not possible to change the scope of the domain local
groups when the W2K domain is in mixed mode. And the 14 NT4 BDC's are
distributed in the whole country and it's impossible to migrate them all at
the same time (even if Switzerland is not very big).
We are now in a bad situation. The Windows 2000 domain contains about 240
local groups which are all used for assigning permissions on directories on
the file server. Have found the tool "subinacl.exe" that is capable to
replace a local group ACE entry with a global group ACL entry for all
objects in a directory tree. But run subinacl.exe 240 times through
directory trees of 20 to 50 GBytes is very time consuming.
The only MS KB article Q296369 where Microsoft aknowledge that this is a
problem in Windows 2000 was last modified January 3, 2003.
- Does anyone know if there is any solution available for this problem
today?
- Would an upgrade of the AD forest and domain to Windows 2003 solve this
problem?
- Does anyone knows another, better solution than replace ACE entries with
subinacl.exe?
We really appreciate any help, thank you all in advance!
Franz
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