RE: Domains Upgrade
- From: v-robeli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Li [MSFT])
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:21:36 GMT
Hi,
Thanks for posting in our newsgroup.
From your description, I know that you want to migrate the NT 4.0 Domain toSBS 2003, If I am off-base, please don¡¯t hesitate to let me know.
Please let me know the following to make the situation more clearly:
1. You mentioned that the Windows 2003 server have two workgroups. Did you
join the Server and clients to NT 4.0 Domain?
2. What ¡®s the topology of the network? Do all the servers and clients in
the same LAN?
For a migration scenario from NT 4 domain to SBS 2k3 domain, I would
suggest you to take a look of the following article
Migrating from Small Business Server 4.5 or Windows NT Server 4.0 to
Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/deploy/sbs45203.mspx
To preserve client user profiles and settings that was on the old 2K/NT
domain to the new SBS 2003 domain, a manual way is documented in the KB
article '314045 HOW TO: Restore a User Profile in Windows 2000 -
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314045'.
Another way is to create a local profile, copy the original domain profile
to the local profile, and then let the 'Setup Computer' wizard do the task
'map local profile to new domain profile' for you.
As long as you create your computer accounts using the server manager's "to
do list" you will be prompted to migrate profile information. When you join
the workstations to the domain by using the web site (ie
http://servername/connectcomputer) part of the process of joining the
domain will allow you to migrate user settings. However, to use this
method, you need to make sure that the profile you want to migrate from is
a local user profile (Not a previous domain profile):
1. Before joining the client to SBS 2K3 domain, create a local profile,
and then copy the old domain profile to a local profile.
2. Add the SBS Server into the network
3. Use the Setup Computer Wizard in SBS 2003 to join the (now) XP Pro
machines to the SBS domain: Server Management, Standard Management, Client
Computers, Set Up Client Computers.
3. On the client, access http//<Server name>/connectcomputer to bring up
the Setup Computer Wizard, it will then allow you to map domain user
accounts to local profiles on the machine thus preserving your profiles:
'Assign Users to this Computes and Migrate their Profiles'.
4. You will Add a domain account to 'Users assigned to this computer', and
then choose the existing local user profile in the 'Current User Settings'.
By Default, the value for 'Current User Settings' is 'None'.
In addition, if you use this method to map your domain account profile to
the existing local computer account when using the Connectcomputer wizard,
the resulting domain account will not have the Outlook Exchange profile
configured automatically, you will need to create the Outlook profile to
connect to your SBS Exchange server.
During server setup, a default .prf file named SBSDefault.prf is copied
from CD to \\%sbsserver\clients\Setup. The setup then updates two instances
of %SBSServer% with the name of the server. During client configuration
(ConnectComputer,) the file is copied to the client folder 'C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Windows Small Business Server\Clients' and %FaxTransport%
is replaced with either MSFax XP (for Windows XP) or SHAREDFAX XP (for
Windows 2000).
The easiest way to create the SBS 2K3 Outlook profile is to remove all the
Outlook Profile, make sure Outlook is closed, and then locate to the client
computer folder 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Windows Small Business
Server\Clients' (or '\\SBS2003Server\clients\Setup' if the folder is not
created on the client computer,) double click sbsdefault.prf, this will
automatically create the outlook profile with the correct settings (which
also include the FAX Transport) for the corresponding domain user.
In addition, when you add Windows 2000 to SBS 2003 Domain, please don¡¯t
run http//<Server name>/connectcomputer in IE. That¡¯s not recommended.
Please join the server to domain manually.
Hope above information helps.
If you need further assistance, please don¡¯t hesitate to let me know.
Best regards,
Robert Li(MSFT)
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<I am upgrading out network and have 2 servers one a domain NT4.0 server
and
<another win 2000 server. I am adding a brand new server running Small
<Business 2003 and want to make this new server the Primary Domain.
Removing
<the NT 4.0 Server from the network. On the Win 2000 Server I have 2
<workgroups. What would be the best solution to migrating all my users
over
<some of the desktops are running Win 2000 and some Win XP Professional.
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<one of the workgroups has all our machines in it called FLOOR and the
other
<is our Admin server running the accounting applications called Quantum
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<Any suggestions?
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