To deal with the 5000 workstations you migrate the computer accounts of the workstations and servers. I am pretty sure that ADMTv2 will deal with this ok, but the 3rd party migration tools from Quest and NetIQ will do this a little cleaner and offer you better logging/reporting. If you want to migrate your servers then you need to take a look at what servers you have, if any of them are complex they may need special attention. If you are using SQL servers that use both Windows Authentication and SQL Authentication then using the Quest tool is really your only option for migrating the server since NetIQ and ADMT don't deal with that situation. Of course you could also do it manually without a migration tool, it'll just take a bit more work.
The method that you've proposed it a fairly commonly used method and you are definitely on the right track. The domain rename option is also there, but the migration method is also a very viable and well used method of achieving what you're trying to do. Phil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fush Grubber Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 5:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Migrating to Win2k3 <Snip) One of the top questions lingering in my mind is that since I have about 5000 clients running windows xp, how will I automate the process of clients joining the new domain, since they are presently members of the old domain. Secondly, I want to find out if any one has used this method to carry out an upgrade and advice me if I am doing anything wrong and the best steps I would need to take to ensure the upgrade is successful. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
