Good information, thanks. Can you share why you went with the Dell migration tool over Microsoft's ADMT? Ryan
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carneiro, Smita A. Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 5:42 AM To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> Subject: [adgpo] RE: domain migrations We will be doing a migration to a greenfield environment in the coming months, and plan on using the Dell Migration Manager tool. We have a large AD and migrating all the applications will be a challenge. That is where we hope to see the real value of the tool. Communicating with the different areas on campus - our AD is very decentralized - is a very important part of this process. We talked to them got their input and redesigned our logical structure to meet their needs better. We also built a test environment that is a replica of the greenfield environment that will be built, and have let interested parties get in to test. If you have to pick the most important process, I would say it is communication. And make sure you have a good project manager. Smita From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 4:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [adgpo] domain migrations Hi: I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has performed an AD migration, such as as part of an acquisition or similar. In the past when we've acquired companies, the environments have been small enough that we were just able to recreate all of their accounts in our domain manually and then disjoin the machines from their old domain and join them to ours. Going forward, though, I've been asked about better ways of doing this, such as exploring domain trusts and migration tools. We're currently a single-forest single-domain shop, so I know there's going to be a lot of things to think about going forward that we haven't had to think about before (local VS global VS universal groups, etc.) I was just curious to hearing from people who have done this before as to what is a common way this is done in the real world as I start exploring. Thanks. Ryan Ryan Shugart LAN Administrator MiTek USA, MiTek Denver 314-851-7414 MiTek Holdings, Inc., 2011-2014, All Rights Reserved ________________________________ This communication (including any attachments) contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), please note that any distribution, copying, or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and then destroy any copies of it.
