2003 to 2003 server migration
My company has just acquired another on the other side of the state. We are running a Windows 2003 domain with multiple servers on our LAN and we have 6 other offices all connected in our WAN. Most of these other offices have either windows 2003 or 2000 servers for authentication and some drive/printer mappings. What I want to know is what do I do to go about adding this newly acquired network to our domain so that their users will start authenticating on our domain rather than theirs? They have a smaller network 6-7 users on a 2003 standard server. I haven't had a chance to get my hands on their server yet, so I'm not sure what exactly I'm getting into but I should have more info either tomorrow or Thursday. Feel free to fire away at questions and I'll do my best to gather the info for you as I get it.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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hmm just realise you said 6-7 users not servers ^_^ doh... but still i sand by my thoughts.
I SAND by his thoughts too.
For a small office there is no reason to have 2 domains one flat domain would be a better scenario.
I woudl go the route as sstone said
I woudl go the route as sstone said
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Ok I've created the accounts and I'm going to run dcpromo to demote it and add it to our domain. Before I do that I know I will have to add all the computers to the new domain. When I do this will i have to setup new user profiles for each user or is there a tool that can re associate user profiles with the new domain?
You could use CSVDE (http://www.computerperform
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Sorry for the late response, I did this last Friday and it went very smooth. I did have to change some permissions around but that took about 10 seconds. After that I just manually moved profile data over after adding the computers to the domain, with 7 users it didn't take long at all. thanks for the help.
or you could recreate user accounts on your domain and join thier server/computers to your domain. (alot harder)
this is when you need to hire an network architech contractor for a few hours, so he can help you with this.. it has to be very specific to your needs. if this was me thats what i would do.