It actually (like many things) depends on your requirements and how far you've got... ;-)
In all reality it shouldn't be a problem - your main issues are supportability and group-sync etc. as you have already identified. There are come simple scripts and also products on the market that can help you with sychronisation. However, on the supportability front I can just see it being nasty in assigning permissions back onto NT4 for AD users and vice-versa during your 'hold period' as changes and moves happen in the day-to-day life of an organization. It just means you could have some screw-ups to deal with if the people doing this are not highly skilled or understand the impact, but also it will complicate some things when you get the migration going again in terms of making sure you know where you are starting from again because it sure as hell won't be the same as when you left it! Also what will be your process for changes (i.e. new employees) during the 'hold period'? What if everyone else in their group is still on NT4, will you create them a new AD account or an NT4 one - you need to have good change management in place to see you through this. If you have Exchange as well and are half way through migrating that, it can also make things quite interesting. How long will you have to be on hold and how many users are we talking about in your org? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: 27 January 2004 03:26 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] Our AD migration is in jeopardy The boss asked today what risks we'd face if we put our AD migrations on hold. We've already migrated 5 sites and have about 20 remaining to go. I'm guessing it's a money issue. Other than the pain of having to keep our existing NT4 domains and our AD domains in sync, I can't think of any other negatives about staying in a dual domain configuration. Can anyone think of any GOOD reasons you wouldn't want to continue running in NT4 other than Microsoft cutting off NT4 support soon or keeping the domains in sync? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is confidential, may contain proprietary information of the Cooper Cameron Corporation and its operating Divisions and may be confidential or privileged. This e-mail should be read, copied, disseminated and/or used only by the addressee. If you have received this message in error please delete it, together with any attachments, from your system. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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/ 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/
