Something else that may be useful: Active Directory Migration Tool<http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17488>
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Evan Pettrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Edward, > > See my comments inline below: > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > 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? >> > > You're absolutely right about the time that goes into setting things up > right for developers and I'm sure they appreciate your concern for their > time while seeking a solution. > > Something I've used in the past to get around users having to completely > recreate their profiles is Windows Easy > Transfer<http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Transfer-files-and-settings-from-another-computer>. > The tool was designed to assist people when moving to a new computer > running Windows 7, however you can select individual profiles, which you > can then jury rig to move everything over from their old domain user to > their new one. > > The basic process it to export the profile to your local machine, and then > import the profile on the same machine, pointing it to their new domain > account. > > There were a couple small quirks (registry doesn't seem to copy over) that > we ran into when doing this, but it got the job done. > > > The big X factor in all of this is how large of an environment you're > supporting. The tool is not made for the enterprise so it isn't designed to > scale. You can probably glue together some sort of solution that would > automate this but I'm not sure how you'd go about doing so (I've only had > to do this for isolated incidents, never enterprise wide). > > > Ideally there is a better solution available but this should be able to > get things done in a pinch. > >> >> 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? >> > > No real help here but my take away from that comment was that he meant > having to setup the apps to hook into the new AD domain, perhaps copy over > data, etc...just my two cents. > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> > >
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