RE: howto: migrate fileserver resources from NT4 BDC to W2003 member server

Hi,

I'd like to provide following two tools:

FSMT
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/upgrading/nt4/tooldocs/msfsc.mspx

Robocopy
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323275

Hope it helps

Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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>>From: "Franz Schenk" <franz.schenkNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: howto: migrate fileserver resources from NT4 BDC to W2003 member
server
>>Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:59:38 +0100
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>>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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