I have done many of these as well. Mentioning Citrix, don't forget user accounts defined on your other application servers (databases, web, etc). Those sometimes turn into mini-projects of their own.
------------------------------------------------------ Wayne Eisenberg Server and PC Support Manager Pepsi Bottling Ventures, LLC -----Original Message----- From: Tom Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 6:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Migration from Novell to Microsoft Done it before. Doing it right now. Two important things: plan everything you can think of, inform and instruct users. You'll need to consider printing (big), workstation management (keeping Zenworking, moving to something else?) and so on. Quest, as someone pointed out, has great tools. I am using Quest tools and writing my own scripts to do desktop cleanup/profile moves. One thing I try to do when I migrate is to minimize impact on users. The Novell stuff goes away from the desktop, but when possible I try to keep mappings the same for home and department drives, since at many places staff know their data are on "the j: drive", for example, and if you don't keep that, staff will call and ask where the j: drive went. Novell has free the Identity Manager bundle: you can install this on your Windows and Netware servers to synchronize user accounts. The good thing about this is that since it also synchronizes passwords, if you have systems tied to Novell (Citrix for one like I do) and connect move them to AD until the migration is complete, users will never notice any change. You really do need a Netware/eDirectory person on your team. And forget about the 0% downtime. Even if you do it at night something will pop-up. Feel free to contact me off-list if you wish. Tom Miller Engineer, Information Technology Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board 757-788-0528 >>> "Jeffrey Showen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/02/08 7:43 PM >>> Stupid question time! One of our new contracts wants to migrate from Novell to Windows. They already had AD setup when we won the contract and they want to keep what they have. They have about 100 Novell servers and they want to migrate them all to Windows Server platforms - obviously without losing any data and without downtime. I must admit I know nothing of Novell and mansgement is asking me how to accomplish the migration - great! I always seem to end up as the meat in an idiot sandwich! The good thing is that they are not in a big hurry so we have time to figure this out. Anybody migrated from Novell to Windows before? Any advice or pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Jeff ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
