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SBS 2003- move users from Standard Management to Active Directory
I have a lot of users that have been created in the SBS 2003 "Standard Management" area. Is it possible to move users (and groups) to the Active Directory/Advanced Management part? Thanks for any help.
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SBS is a VERY Stable system - if you manage it through the wizards. If you start mucking around in ADUC, you could break things. ESPECIALLY if you do things like REMOVE or RENAME any of those OUs. In SBS domains you CAN have multiple servers and Multiple DCs - BUT, the SBS Server MUST be the FSMO master DC.
If you are moving away from SBS, I would suggest you wait until you decomission the SBS server before doing anything drastic with re-arranging OU assignments/names.
I am curious why you are moving away from SBS - you will be losing features only available with the SBS/EBS platform, such as RWW.
If you are moving away from SBS, I would suggest you wait until you decomission the SBS server before doing anything drastic with re-arranging OU assignments/names.
I am curious why you are moving away from SBS - you will be losing features only available with the SBS/EBS platform, such as RWW.
There are a number of group policies that are applied to the MyBusiness OU that are not applied to the users in the regular Users container. I would advise looking at the group policies through the GPMC so that you understand what they are and how they are applied. However, to at least some extent, IIRC, those GP's are applied to the groups in the MyBusiness container rather than to individual users, so unless you change the users' group membership the group policies will still apply even if you move them to the Users container. Other than that, I can't think of anything else that would be affected by moving the user accounts.
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Thanks!