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Moving Sharepoint WSS 3.0 to another domain

As a part of an interforest migration, I need to move the WSS 3.0 server to the new domain. There is a trust that exists, but that will be broken at the end.
I am planning to use ADMT to move the user the accounts across and then add WSS to the new domain, first will this workor am I missing a step? What other considerations do I need to take into account as a part of this migration?

Many thanks in advance for the help.
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Chris - thank you.

So just to be clear, I change the accounts with new credentials first (as trust is already in place), then change the domain of the server hosting WSS?
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It's on the same box.
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Many thanks for your help
Did this work for you? Did you have to follow any other steps, like stsadm -o migrateuser -oldlogin <domain\name>  -newlogin <domain\name> ?

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Still waiting to implement this. Should be happening in the next 4/5 weeks.
mine should happen in the next 4-5 hours ;-)
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Good luck, let us know how it goes.
ok, I'm after this now :/

It was a nightmare, mainly because the server where WSS was hosted was a domain controller also. After I removed DC role from it as a prep for migration WSS seized to even start a service. It turned out that WSS created three groups and they were in the domain, so WSS service was unable to locate them when was no longer a DC. I had to re-create WSS_RESTRICTED_WPG, IIS_WPG, WSS_Admin_WPG and WSS_WPG and populate (vide http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepointgeneral/thread/28543da4-aada-4ec1-a1c0-c065929863f1). Then after service started I was unable to see any webparts due to missing temp and logfiles folders permissions, so here helped following article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826786
After that you can consider the move successful :)

Hope that helps :)