Re: Moving computer and user accounts over to a new server

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From: Timothy Morris (tim_at_online.kingswoodhouse.e7even.com)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:00:12 +0100

"Jeff Middleton [SBS-MVP]" <jeff@cfisolutions.com> wrote in message
news:%23tLOuneiEHA.1048@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi Tim,
>
> I apologize if I contributed to the confusing that was apparently
building,
> let me try to clean up the picture here.
>
Jeff,

Thanks for your long and detailed explanation, I have read through it in its
entirety. I've also read through Cris's briefer but also useful answer.

1. The LaCie drive is a more than adequate backup device but the idiots in
France who shipped out the advance replacement shipped out a firewire only
drive rather than a firewire/USB 2.0 drive, and in my case they may as well
have shipped out half a house brick!

2. I have a dozen PCs and twenty users, and I also have a 10 day window
where the users are away. I'm going to do it manually - remove all the PCs
from the domain, re-instate them and set the users up with new passwords.
(if there is an easy way around this that I have missed in my tired-ness
then please let me know).

To be honest I cannot believe that MS do not have a simple tool in place to
do exactly what I'm asking. I can't be the first, and I guarantee I won't be
the last person who wants to do this.

I do appreciate your attempt to point me in the right direction though.

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