I'm pretty much fearful of exactly the same things - in the
meantime it's clear that any change to the source is not allowed and the
customer is really keen on doing everything at once over a long weekend and is
willing to risk "some extra troubleshooting" for the benefit of keeping both
domains intact. Sounds like a lovely scripting job without much help from
migration tools...
I'll have to think about doing some network tricks to have
them in differnt subnets - then it should work having the two DCs available in
the location (somehow).
Thanks though Eric for your thoughts early in the morning
;-)
/Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2005 17:30 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Migration between domains with same NetBios name AD itself shouldn't care (if
it will care, I can't think of why right now, but then again it's only 8:32am,
far before I am usually able to recall much). But someone who does broadcast, or
maybe WINS gets mucked up as a result....they very well might care that a domain
they think has some name doesn't know who they are.
Having two domains with the same name
within NetBIOS earshot of one another is risky business. I'm always fearful that
some subtle component (in Windows or not) gets confused and talks to a DC in the
wrong domain.
Another other option is logical migration
w/o physical. Take the users and do logical migration on them (ldifde or the
like), and deal with SID and such headache and domain rejoin.
Another option is upgrade the 2k+ side to
2k3, and rename that domain.
~Eric
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Grillenmeier, Guido Sent: Thu 6/16/2005 12:52 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Migration between domains with same NetBios name Thanks Eric, renaming the source NT4 domain was on the list
of my options and I know that it works as I've done it before in a larger
test-environment. However, I expect many more headaches in a production
environment as it's difficult to analyse all the dependencies to existing apps,
e.g. Exchange 5.5 and others.
And since you need to re-join all members to the domain
anyways, it's almost as much work as just joining them to the target
domain...
...hmm - that just triggered a thought - I guess it would
be possible to do just that: rename the source dom (on PDC) + re-join all BDCs,
then setup trust to the target domain and join all resources to target domain
while accounts & groups are still in (renamed) source domain. [thinking
continues]... ofcourse the challenges with the apps and potential dependencies
on the old domain name remain and need to be analysed first - so it's really
tough to estimate the amount of work involved for this...
Besides, the obvious downside is fallback options =>
customers usually don't allow any drastic changes in the existing
infrastructure, when migrating to another one - which I fully
understand.
So I was
mainly seeking for other experience and things to look out for, if domain rename
is not an option. E.g. is it really an issue to have a BDC of the NT4 CORP
domain in the same subnet as a DC of the AD CORP domain? I guess I could
hinder the AD DC somehow from trying to race against the NT4 BDC to
become master browser. Even when we plan to do a hard-cutover (long
weekend), I'll need DCs of both domains available at some point... And I
know I need to test this anyways, but can't do so right
now.
I should mention, that I'm talking about roughly 1000
users with clients and servers distributed in a dozen locations. So nothing
major - a hard cutover should be doable over a long 4-day weekend (incl.
migration of all mailboxes at once) and handling re-ACLing on the FS is no
issue.
Accrd. to customer, there are no other apps (other than
Exchange) that leverage the NT4 domain for anything (other than running on a
memberserver). My past experience tells me that this is likely not to be
true... I'm sure there are other things that are often overlooked - any
ideas?
/Guido
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2005 07:53 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Migration between domains with same NetBios name Rename it?
I will admit, I’ve never actually tried this, but I know people who say it works. I think you should try this procedure, on a test box first, and report back. Maybe you should do it to an BDC you bring up just to test, isolated, and see how it goes. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;169741
If this does work, I’d like to know, so I can recommend it in the future.
The other option is logical data migration but not actual “migration” if you will. IE, ldifde and such. But that comes with the normal “lose the SIDs” type of issues, which I assume to be a major headache for your scenario.
~Eric
PS: Basically, this mail translates roughly in to me saying, this might or might not work, and I’d like you to be my testing guy to let me know, since I’ve never had occasion to give it a whirl myself.
From:
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On Behalf Of Grillenmeier,
Guido
Here is a nice one - I've done quite a few migration with all kinds of scenarios, so I hardly ask questions around this topic.
But when migrating from one NT4 domain to an AD domain which both have the same NetBios names, various issues and potential conflicts come to mind and I wonder if others had to do this in the past, who could share their experience.
Think about an existing NT4 domain called CORP and another existing AD domain called CORP (with DNS=copr.company.com). And now you need to migrate all users and resources from the NT4 CORP to the AD CORP and place AD DCs into the same sites as the exising NT4 DCs...
I can imagine various challenges, besides not being able to setup a trust and thus loosing various options for doing a "normal" migration. At least I have no need to register the AD domain in WINS; all clients are XP, but I know for sure that I'm going to run into various other issues (the worst one being that the account activation and the resource migration has to happend instantaneously, since resource access won't be possible accross the domains). But I'm also thinking of networking issues with and NT4 DC of the one and an AD DC of the other domain in the same ip-subnet...
I wonder how others have tackled this challenge and what issues you ran into.
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