GT, Mostly OT but is related if you are starting the workstation migration journey...
Rick's comment about the task manager and checking machines reminded me of something else we did during the workstation migrations. Our operating mantra during the process was "clean reboot...clean reboot....ohmmmmmm....clean rebooot". :) We used batch files with a FOR statement to drive "shutdown.exe" and "uptime.exe". Shutdown allowed us to force the list of workstations to reboot right before the migration. The Uptime batch file (piped to a .csv file) allowed us to monitor the reboot cycle and make sure all the machines were ready to go. This had the side benefit of weeding out the problem child machines. If shutdown didn't work then the ADMT agent would generally bonk as well. Uptime was also useful in monitoring the reboot after the ADMT agent was finished. Machines that took a long time with the agent could be found and then checked. -Stuart ----------------------------------- Example Shutdown batch file: REM **** Modify the line below for location of workstation list set file=c:\temp\machineList.txt FOR /F "tokens=1 delims=, " %%i in (%file%) do shutdown \\%%i /R /c -----Original Message----- From: Graham Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] admt 2.0 - nt4 computer migration Gentlemen, thanks to all for your contributions to this. will be going to customer site later this week to do some exhaustive testing on this issue (assuming of course that the computers have not melted in the ridiculously warm weather we are having here !) any other things that you can add will be v gladly received. GT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Kingslan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 11:16 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] admt 2.0 - nt4 computer migration > Stuart, Graham - > > The Agent exec is ADMTAGNT.EXE. Also, I don't remember it running > under the > Explorer process, as when we did our migrations (well, the on-going saga...) > it was an easy matter to check how a machine was doing by bringing up > task manager to determine status and load on the box. Had to do this > numerous times as workstations took too long and we needed to > determine the real status of the process. > > Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT > Microsoft MVP - Active Directory > Associate Expert > Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
