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Active Directory Migration common questions asked to clients?Question:

Hello Experts,

Can anyone provide me with template or doc with most common questions asked to client during a migration of Active Directory Domain services?

Basically I have a client who wants to migrate their systems from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008

What should be the most important questions/guidelines to ask for a client who is requesting consulting services?

Thank you in advance

kevinhsieh

Are you doing a migration or an upgrade of the existing forest/domain? An upgrade is much easier, in which case you just need to join a W2K8 R2 SP1 machine to the domain, run adprep, and then dcpromo. An actual migration to a new forest is a huge deal and sharsould generally be avoided.

For an upgrade, I would ask about server licenses and CALs, and whether they plan to reuse existing hardware reources or use new ones. I would look in AD for all of their domain controllers and ask which ones are going to be upgraded/replaced. Hopefully there are no NT4 or W2K DCs because you will need to deal with those first.

I would also ask to see if they know about any other services that the DCs are providing such as file, print , IAS, AV software, backup, etc. I would also do an inspection of the DCs to confirm.

You should also ask about future plans for the old and new servers.

The larger the environment, th

kevinhsieh

The larger the environment, the more questions you will need to ask and the more investigation you will need to do.

Jerry Seinfield

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Any other suggestions?

Can anyone provide me with a check list for AD migration to Windows 2008 R2?

Thank you in advance

kevinhsieh

Are you doing a migration from one domain to another, or an upgrade? Those are very different things.

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