Great idea Charlie, I'll test that in the lab. 

Ian 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Carerros, Charles
> Sent: 22 June 2005 13:06
> To: '[email protected]'; Jorge de Almeida Pinto
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Migrating remote users to new domain
> 
> Ian, 
> 
> One thing that you might want to try (and that I think will 
> work) is if you migrate the machine over their VPN, but when 
> the computer comes back online have them use their old 
> network ID to log on once, connect through your VPN client 
> and then have them use the "run as" feature on any 
> application using their new domain credentials.  
> 
> When they use the "run as" it should download their new 
> credentials to the machine so when they log off their old 
> account and back in with the new account the laptop should 
> already have the SAM entry for the new domain account.
> 
> It's a theory, but it might work.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 2:31 AM
> To: Jorge de Almeida Pinto
> Cc: Ian Moran; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Migrating remote users to new domain
> 
> 
> Sorry, I should have been clearer. It's the computer accounts 
> that concern me. We can arrange for the users workstation to 
> be connected to the domain at the time of migration but I'm 
> just thinking it may be safer to simply have all remote 
> computers returned to the main office for the migration.
> 
> On 21 Jun 2005, at 21:43, Jorge de Almeida Pinto wrote:
> 
> > The user accounts can be migrated without the actual user 
> connecting 
> > to the LAN, no matter what migration tool you use. However 
> to migrate 
> > the client computers and re-acl the client computer the 
> computers must 
> > be connected to the LAN. I'm sure of that if you use ADMT. I'm not 
> > aware if there exists a migration tool that can migrate "offline"
> >
> > #JORGE#
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > To: [email protected]
> > Sent: 6/21/2005 10:26 PM
> > Subject: [ActiveDir] Migrating remote users to new domain
> >
> > I'd appreciate a quick heads up on this. I have a Windows 
> 2003 native 
> > Mode domain with 150 odd remote users. These users are connected to 
> > the domain via client VPN over Broadband.
> >
> > Will it be possible to migrate these users and computers to a new 
> > domain using ADMT (or third party tool) without bringing the 
> > workstations onto the LAN. Anyone done something similar ?
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >
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