> From: Ski Kacoroski [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> Users can
> easily be migrated via Microsoft tools (keeps all their information and
> profile).  

Thanks for your input - I'd like to know some more detail on the mentioned MS 
tools.  Any terms I should google for?

Truly, the one disadvantage that I'm aware of, merging everything into a single 
domain, is ...  Well, for the finance and HR and managers who just care about 
"My Documents" and MS Office, no big deal; they get a new user profile, they 
don't really care.  But for the developers, engineers, product verification, 
etc, who go to a lot of pains to install their development environment and 
configure everything "just so," it represents a real loss of time for them to 
be forced into a new user profile.  So if we can facilitate that change, 
without causing too much difficulty for users, I'd really like to do it.

Ideally, I guess I'd like to see, admin simply joins user's computer onto new 
domain, runs some utility to convert TheUser's profile from the old domain to 
the new domain.  User logs in with the new domain (and possibly new username or 
password).  Doesn't really notice or care about anything after that ... It's 
back to "business as usual" after a few minutes of hand-holding with some IT 
staff.  Is this too much to hope for?

The server resources - shares and whatnot - I'm confident we can handle 
seamlessly.  As you mentioned, trust with the new domain, set permissions in 
the new domain based on pre-existing permissions.  And then phase out the old 
domain.  Users generally don't need to know or care.


> Apps need to be rebuilt in the new domain.  

I think this was probably just a tangential comment, unrelated to anything I 
need to care about.  But just to be sure...  What do you mean?

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