RE: [ActiveDir] Intra-forest migration

[Rob Ryan]

We’ve been using the Quest migration suite lately and have had pretty good success – the biggest selling point for me was that, unlike ADMT and the NetIQ (which are pretty much one in the same except NetIQ will let you “undo” and is supposed to actually work :D) was that it did a non-destructive migration – ADMT/NetIQ is a lot like doing a movetree – if it works, great, if not, you’ve got nothing to go back to.. Quest basically just does a copy of the object, which you can leave disabled in the target until you’re ready to get the users using their new accounts.   All of them should handle profile/permission migration though? I thought I remembered testing that last year when admt2.0 came out, but it was incredibly resource intensive and not necessarily reliable or scalable.   neither Quest nor NetIQ are cheap though, and both bill per user migrated..     -- Rob Ryan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Flesher Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 5:05 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Intra-forest migration   We are trying to reorganize our forest and move accounts to one domain with multiple child resource domains, mostly for political reasons that most Universities are familiar with. What tool(s) are available besides ADMTv2 to migrate users from one domain to another within the same forest? ADMT does not copy profiles as far as I know. My biggest issue is not having enough staff to touch all the desktops in one weekend, and hiring temps is probably out as well. Would it be difficult to script something to migrate profiles? Has anyone tried to do this themselves?   Thanks as always. This list is a real help.   Chris Flesher The University of Chicago NSIT/DCS (773)-834-8477