RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request
Does anyone know of a place to get all the best practices for a windows 2000 multiple domain - Windows 2003 single domain (intra-forest). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 5:19 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request it's less point and click these days, at least if you do it right, since you should certainly leverage the include-file options to select the objects for the migration (also allows to rename objects during the migration). However, I doubt that James even has a problem with the migration of users and groups (although I've also used multiple sessions to speed up larger scale migrations with ADMTv3). The more lengthy task is obviously the processing/migration of the clients - here multiple sessions are useful for many reasons, especially to run the tool with different credentials so that it can connect with different account data to the various clients (if these reside in various source domains). Or even just to handle processing of batches. Especially now that ADMT has a cool retry option that will go after all those clients that are forever offline (and it even performs post-migration checks on the clients to see that they've migrated successfully...) The way I've helped myself was to use a terminal server with multiple connections for the different sessions - the RDC session name will be visible and allow you to keep the sessions appart. And when connected to a session - your account would tell you that this is the Denver session or you could even add some other notes on the desktop or whereever, if this helps you keep the sessions appart... /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 00:33 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request It's been ages since we ran our migration, but at the time we scripted it using the sample scripts that accompanied ADMT. If you go that route, you can have multiple log files that are uniquely named and not run into the session confusion. You'll also get much more consistent results from the scripts, as you won't have mischecked options or typos that seem inevitable in lots of point/click scenarios. Hunter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 3:47 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request Hi All I am not sure anybody that can do anything with this listens on this list but we have been using ADMT v.3 with great success for a very large scale migration. The multi session ability has been a huge benefit to us. We are running into a problem keeping multiple sessions straight. How hard would it be to include a description field that you can fill in when you start the session that would then show up in the title bar for the session (something like Session DENVER, California, etc) Just a wish. James R. Day Active Directory Core Team Office of the Chief Information Officer National Park Service 202-230-2983 [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request
so I guess that means you didn't like my TS approach...? :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 01:38 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request Hi Guido Exactly right. In my case I am migrating up to 15 sessions a day of computers (separated by OUs and in this case kept separate because of different IT staff on the ground at the sites and the ability to stop the session, dump the log file into excel, and instant report for on the ground staff). In most cases I am running 5 to 10 sessions from one single ADMT server (very nice feature I might add - that and the infinite retry loop makes this suddenly a viable tool for large scale migrations). What makes it difficult is having 9 or 10 or 12 separate ADMT migration sessions open on one desktop and keeping track of them. If I get a question about a session it means looking through each one (maximizing it and looking for recognizeable machine names) then taking the machine name code to a master file that gives me machine name prefix to org code, then figuring out the simple name of the org code, then providing the answer). You give me a fill in comment section that shows up at the top of this and it saves me 15 minutes of searching. Basically I want something like what Excel does where in the task bar I can see the names of the 17 Worksheets I have open. Of course, log file with names that are customizeable would be nice too but I got around that by stopping the sessions one at a time and renaming the log files as I pull them off into an analysis location (or dumping it straight to the report files in most cases). Again, I am not sure it is doable but it would be nice. Regards; James R. Day Active Directory Core Team Office of the Chief Information Officer National Park Service 202-230-2983 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-+-- | | Grillenmeier, Guido | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | com | | | Sent by: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | tivedir.org| | | | | | | | | 12/13/2005 12:19 AM GMT| | | Please respond to | | | ActiveDir | |-+-- --- ---| | | | To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org | | cc: (bcc: James Day/Contractor/NPS) | | Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request | --- ---| it's less point and click these days, at least if you do it right, since you should certainly leverage the include-file options to select the objects for the migration (also allows to rename objects during the migration). However, I doubt that James even has a problem with the migration of users and groups (although I've also used multiple sessions to speed up larger scale migrations with ADMTv3). The more lengthy task is obviously the processing/migration of the clients - here multiple sessions are useful for many reasons, especially to run the tool with different credentials so that it can connect with different account data to the various clients (if these reside in various source domains). Or even just to handle processing of batches. Especially now that ADMT has a cool retry option that will go after all those clients that are forever offline (and it even performs post-migration checks on the clients to see that they've migrated successfully...) The way I've helped myself was to use a terminal server with multiple connections for the different sessions - the RDC session name will be visible and allow you to keep the sessions appart. And when connected to a session - your account would tell you that this is the Denver session or you could even add some other notes on the desktop or whereever, if this helps you keep the sessions appart... /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 00:33 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request It's been ages since we ran our migration, but at the time we scripted it using the sample scripts that accompanied ADMT. If you go that route, you can have multiple log files that are uniquely named and not run into the session confusion. You'll also get much more consistent results from the scripts, as you won't have mischecked options or typos that seem inevitable in lots of point/click
RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request
www.activedir.org :-) sounds like you want to do a bit of domain collapsing within your forest (which is a good thing, yet it can be more painful than migrating to a new forest). do you have a concrete question? /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hutchins, Mike Sent: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 16:19 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request Does anyone know of a place to get all the best practices for a windows 2000 multiple domain - Windows 2003 single domain (intra-forest). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 5:19 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request it's less point and click these days, at least if you do it right, since you should certainly leverage the include-file options to select the objects for the migration (also allows to rename objects during the migration). However, I doubt that James even has a problem with the migration of users and groups (although I've also used multiple sessions to speed up larger scale migrations with ADMTv3). The more lengthy task is obviously the processing/migration of the clients - here multiple sessions are useful for many reasons, especially to run the tool with different credentials so that it can connect with different account data to the various clients (if these reside in various source domains). Or even just to handle processing of batches. Especially now that ADMT has a cool retry option that will go after all those clients that are forever offline (and it even performs post-migration checks on the clients to see that they've migrated successfully...) The way I've helped myself was to use a terminal server with multiple connections for the different sessions - the RDC session name will be visible and allow you to keep the sessions appart. And when connected to a session - your account would tell you that this is the Denver session or you could even add some other notes on the desktop or whereever, if this helps you keep the sessions appart... /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 00:33 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request It's been ages since we ran our migration, but at the time we scripted it using the sample scripts that accompanied ADMT. If you go that route, you can have multiple log files that are uniquely named and not run into the session confusion. You'll also get much more consistent results from the scripts, as you won't have mischecked options or typos that seem inevitable in lots of point/click scenarios. Hunter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 3:47 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request Hi All I am not sure anybody that can do anything with this listens on this list but we have been using ADMT v.3 with great success for a very large scale migration. The multi session ability has been a huge benefit to us. We are running into a problem keeping multiple sessions straight. How hard would it be to include a description field that you can fill in when you start the session that would then show up in the title bar for the session (something like Session DENVER, California, etc) Just a wish. James R. Day Active Directory Core Team Office of the Chief Information Officer National Park Service 202-230-2983 [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request
How about http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/ucs/ds/dmcnmg/default.mspx -gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:11 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request www.activedir.org :-) sounds like you want to do a bit of domain collapsing within your forest (which is a good thing, yet it can be more painful than migrating to a new forest). do you have a concrete question? /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hutchins, Mike Sent: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 16:19 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request Does anyone know of a place to get all the best practices for a windows 2000 multiple domain - Windows 2003 single domain (intra-forest). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 5:19 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request it's less point and click these days, at least if you do it right, since you should certainly leverage the include-file options to select the objects for the migration (also allows to rename objects during the migration). However, I doubt that James even has a problem with the migration of users and groups (although I've also used multiple sessions to speed up larger scale migrations with ADMTv3). The more lengthy task is obviously the processing/migration of the clients - here multiple sessions are useful for many reasons, especially to run the tool with different credentials so that it can connect with different account data to the various clients (if these reside in various source domains). Or even just to handle processing of batches. Especially now that ADMT has a cool retry option that will go after all those clients that are forever offline (and it even performs post-migration checks on the clients to see that they've migrated successfully...) The way I've helped myself was to use a terminal server with multiple connections for the different sessions - the RDC session name will be visible and allow you to keep the sessions appart. And when connected to a session - your account would tell you that this is the Denver session or you could even add some other notes on the desktop or whereever, if this helps you keep the sessions appart... /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 00:33 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request It's been ages since we ran our migration, but at the time we scripted it using the sample scripts that accompanied ADMT. If you go that route, you can have multiple log files that are uniquely named and not run into the session confusion. You'll also get much more consistent results from the scripts, as you won't have mischecked options or typos that seem inevitable in lots of point/click scenarios. Hunter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 3:47 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request Hi All I am not sure anybody that can do anything with this listens on this list but we have been using ADMT v.3 with great success for a very large scale migration. The multi session ability has been a huge benefit to us. We are running into a problem keeping multiple sessions straight. How hard would it be to include a description field that you can fill in when you start the session that would then show up in the title bar for the session (something like Session DENVER, California, etc) Just a wish. James R. Day Active Directory Core Team Office of the Chief Information Officer National Park Service 202-230-2983 [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail
RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request
Hi Guido TS approach seems like a great idea. Short of putting all my ADMT servers in Application mode and buying a whack of TS licenses and setting up TS license servers Actually, never thought of it but I am not sure the hassle to run 10 to 15 sessions would have been worth it. Is easier to sit here and be grumpy over not being able to find things cuz every single session is called Active Directory Migration Tool Regards; James R. Day Active Directory Core Team Office of the Chief Information Officer National Park Service 202-230-2983 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-+-- | | Grillenmeier, Guido | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | com | | | Sent by: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | tivedir.org| | | | | | | | | 12/13/2005 08:09 PM GMT| | | Please respond to | | | ActiveDir | |-+-- --| | | | To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org | | cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], (bcc: James Day/Contractor/NPS) | | Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request | --| so I guess that means you didn't like my TS approach...? :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 01:38 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request Hi Guido Exactly right. In my case I am migrating up to 15 sessions a day of computers (separated by OUs and in this case kept separate because of different IT staff on the ground at the sites and the ability to stop the session, dump the log file into excel, and instant report for on the ground staff). In most cases I am running 5 to 10 sessions from one single ADMT server (very nice feature I might add - that and the infinite retry loop makes this suddenly a viable tool for large scale migrations). What makes it difficult is having 9 or 10 or 12 separate ADMT migration sessions open on one desktop and keeping track of them. If I get a question about a session it means looking through each one (maximizing it and looking for recognizeable machine names) then taking the machine name code to a master file that gives me machine name prefix to org code, then figuring out the simple name of the org code, then providing the answer). You give me a fill in comment section that shows up at the top of this and it saves me 15 minutes of searching. Basically I want something like what Excel does where in the task bar I can see the names of the 17 Worksheets I have open. Of course, log file with names that are customizeable would be nice too but I got around that by stopping the sessions one at a time and renaming the log files as I pull them off into an analysis location (or dumping it straight to the report files in most cases). Again, I am not sure it is doable but it would be nice. Regards; James R. Day Active Directory Core Team Office of the Chief Information Officer National Park Service 202-230-2983 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-+-- | | Grillenmeier, Guido | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | com | | | Sent by: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | tivedir.org| | | | | | | | | 12/13/2005 12:19 AM GMT| | | Please respond to | | | ActiveDir | |-+-- --- ---| | | | To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org | | cc: (bcc: James Day/Contractor/NPS) | | Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request | --- ---| it's less point and click these days, at least
RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request
Not really, the big issue is group membership stuff. Like domain admins and such. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:11 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request www.activedir.org :-) sounds like you want to do a bit of domain collapsing within your forest (which is a good thing, yet it can be more painful than migrating to a new forest). do you have a concrete question? /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hutchins, Mike Sent: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 16:19 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request Does anyone know of a place to get all the best practices for a windows 2000 multiple domain - Windows 2003 single domain (intra-forest). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 5:19 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request it's less point and click these days, at least if you do it right, since you should certainly leverage the include-file options to select the objects for the migration (also allows to rename objects during the migration). However, I doubt that James even has a problem with the migration of users and groups (although I've also used multiple sessions to speed up larger scale migrations with ADMTv3). The more lengthy task is obviously the processing/migration of the clients - here multiple sessions are useful for many reasons, especially to run the tool with different credentials so that it can connect with different account data to the various clients (if these reside in various source domains). Or even just to handle processing of batches. Especially now that ADMT has a cool retry option that will go after all those clients that are forever offline (and it even performs post-migration checks on the clients to see that they've migrated successfully...) The way I've helped myself was to use a terminal server with multiple connections for the different sessions - the RDC session name will be visible and allow you to keep the sessions appart. And when connected to a session - your account would tell you that this is the Denver session or you could even add some other notes on the desktop or whereever, if this helps you keep the sessions appart... /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 00:33 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request It's been ages since we ran our migration, but at the time we scripted it using the sample scripts that accompanied ADMT. If you go that route, you can have multiple log files that are uniquely named and not run into the session confusion. You'll also get much more consistent results from the scripts, as you won't have mischecked options or typos that seem inevitable in lots of point/click scenarios. Hunter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 3:47 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request Hi All I am not sure anybody that can do anything with this listens on this list but we have been using ADMT v.3 with great success for a very large scale migration. The multi session ability has been a huge benefit to us. We are running into a problem keeping multiple sessions straight. How hard would it be to include a description field that you can fill in when you start the session that would then show up in the title bar for the session (something like Session DENVER, California, etc) Just a wish. James R. Day Active Directory Core Team Office of the Chief Information Officer National Park Service 202-230-2983 [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail
RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request
It's been ages since we ran our migration, but at the time we scripted it using the sample scripts that accompanied ADMT. If you go that route, you can have multiple log files that are uniquely named and not run into the session confusion. You'll also get much more consistent results from the scripts, as you won't have mischecked options or typos that seem inevitable in lots of point/click scenarios. Hunter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 3:47 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request Hi All I am not sure anybody that can do anything with this listens on this list but we have been using ADMT v.3 with great success for a very large scale migration. The multi session ability has been a huge benefit to us. We are running into a problem keeping multiple sessions straight. How hard would it be to include a description field that you can fill in when you start the session that would then show up in the title bar for the session (something like Session DENVER, California, etc) Just a wish. James R. Day Active Directory Core Team Office of the Chief Information Officer National Park Service 202-230-2983 [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request
it's less point and click these days, at least if you do it right, since you should certainly leverage the include-file options to select the objects for the migration (also allows to rename objects during the migration). However, I doubt that James even has a problem with the migration of users and groups (although I've also used multiple sessions to speed up larger scale migrations with ADMTv3). The more lengthy task is obviously the processing/migration of the clients - here multiple sessions are useful for many reasons, especially to run the tool with different credentials so that it can connect with different account data to the various clients (if these reside in various source domains). Or even just to handle processing of batches. Especially now that ADMT has a cool retry option that will go after all those clients that are forever offline (and it even performs post-migration checks on the clients to see that they've migrated successfully...) The way I've helped myself was to use a terminal server with multiple connections for the different sessions - the RDC session name will be visible and allow you to keep the sessions appart. And when connected to a session - your account would tell you that this is the Denver session or you could even add some other notes on the desktop or whereever, if this helps you keep the sessions appart... /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 00:33 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request It's been ages since we ran our migration, but at the time we scripted it using the sample scripts that accompanied ADMT. If you go that route, you can have multiple log files that are uniquely named and not run into the session confusion. You'll also get much more consistent results from the scripts, as you won't have mischecked options or typos that seem inevitable in lots of point/click scenarios. Hunter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 3:47 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request Hi All I am not sure anybody that can do anything with this listens on this list but we have been using ADMT v.3 with great success for a very large scale migration. The multi session ability has been a huge benefit to us. We are running into a problem keeping multiple sessions straight. How hard would it be to include a description field that you can fill in when you start the session that would then show up in the title bar for the session (something like Session DENVER, California, etc) Just a wish. James R. Day Active Directory Core Team Office of the Chief Information Officer National Park Service 202-230-2983 [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request
Hi Guido Exactly right. In my case I am migrating up to 15 sessions a day of computers (separated by OUs and in this case kept separate because of different IT staff on the ground at the sites and the ability to stop the session, dump the log file into excel, and instant report for on the ground staff). In most cases I am running 5 to 10 sessions from one single ADMT server (very nice feature I might add - that and the infinite retry loop makes this suddenly a viable tool for large scale migrations). What makes it difficult is having 9 or 10 or 12 separate ADMT migration sessions open on one desktop and keeping track of them. If I get a question about a session it means looking through each one (maximizing it and looking for recognizeable machine names) then taking the machine name code to a master file that gives me machine name prefix to org code, then figuring out the simple name of the org code, then providing the answer). You give me a fill in comment section that shows up at the top of this and it saves me 15 minutes of searching. Basically I want something like what Excel does where in the task bar I can see the names of the 17 Worksheets I have open. Of course, log file with names that are customizeable would be nice too but I got around that by stopping the sessions one at a time and renaming the log files as I pull them off into an analysis location (or dumping it straight to the report files in most cases). Again, I am not sure it is doable but it would be nice. Regards; James R. Day Active Directory Core Team Office of the Chief Information Officer National Park Service 202-230-2983 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-+-- | | Grillenmeier, Guido | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | com | | | Sent by: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | tivedir.org| | | | | | | | | 12/13/2005 12:19 AM GMT| | | Please respond to | | | ActiveDir | |-+-- --| | | | To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org | | cc: (bcc: James Day/Contractor/NPS) | | Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request | --| it's less point and click these days, at least if you do it right, since you should certainly leverage the include-file options to select the objects for the migration (also allows to rename objects during the migration). However, I doubt that James even has a problem with the migration of users and groups (although I've also used multiple sessions to speed up larger scale migrations with ADMTv3). The more lengthy task is obviously the processing/migration of the clients - here multiple sessions are useful for many reasons, especially to run the tool with different credentials so that it can connect with different account data to the various clients (if these reside in various source domains). Or even just to handle processing of batches. Especially now that ADMT has a cool retry option that will go after all those clients that are forever offline (and it even performs post-migration checks on the clients to see that they've migrated successfully...) The way I've helped myself was to use a terminal server with multiple connections for the different sessions - the RDC session name will be visible and allow you to keep the sessions appart. And when connected to a session - your account would tell you that this is the Denver session or you could even add some other notes on the desktop or whereever, if this helps you keep the sessions appart... /Guido -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 00:33 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] ADMT Request It's been ages since we ran our migration, but at the time we scripted it using the sample scripts that accompanied ADMT. If you go that route, you can have multiple log files that are uniquely named and not run into the session confusion. You'll also get much more consistent results from the scripts, as you won't have mischecked options or typos that seem
