Domain loss situation
Good morning experts,
A little background: a company had a 2093 SBS running as a domain controller, as well as an FTP server. The domain controller also played host to the backend of an Access Database.
A 2008 standard Server was purchased some time ago, and although became part of the domain, never served as a DC. The 2003 SBS died after 10-11 yrs of service. The 2008, could not become DC without forest prep. All user accounts were recreated on this 2008 Standard for a workgroup environment, running FTP, and hosting Access BE.
2 new 2012 standard Servers have been purchased with the idea of enabling DFS replication so we cannot hit that problem again. With the 2012s being new, they will be easy to put to a DC status in order to implement DFS, but all the user accounts are on the 2008 machine. Is there anyway to migrate, transfer, or move the user accounts (SAM database) to the 2012 server then promote it? Right now they are all members of a workgroup.
Thanks for your anything you can suggest.
A little background: a company had a 2093 SBS running as a domain controller, as well as an FTP server. The domain controller also played host to the backend of an Access Database.
A 2008 standard Server was purchased some time ago, and although became part of the domain, never served as a DC. The 2003 SBS died after 10-11 yrs of service. The 2008, could not become DC without forest prep. All user accounts were recreated on this 2008 Standard for a workgroup environment, running FTP, and hosting Access BE.
2 new 2012 standard Servers have been purchased with the idea of enabling DFS replication so we cannot hit that problem again. With the 2012s being new, they will be easy to put to a DC status in order to implement DFS, but all the user accounts are on the 2008 machine. Is there anyway to migrate, transfer, or move the user accounts (SAM database) to the 2012 server then promote it? Right now they are all members of a workgroup.
Thanks for your anything you can suggest.
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As far as i know there isn't a way to transfer the actual account (like passwords etc.) but you can transfer the profile to a roaming profile with some permissions modifications.
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I will probably just have to recreate them. I'm not so sure the roaming profile idea will work in a non domain structure. I've never seen roaming profiles in a peer to peer workgroup... Is that possible?
Yeah, you would set up the roaming the profile on the new account in the domain if you went that route. =/
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Roaming profiles are not really a concern... but I like the idea of taking one of the new servers offline, creating the domain with all the user accounts, then bringing it online.
Thank you Hypercat, Frank, I really appreciate your input. I didn't think there was an easier route, but it never hurts to check
Thank you Hypercat, Frank, I really appreciate your input. I didn't think there was an easier route, but it never hurts to check
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Always value the input up here - Thanks
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