MCSE : Security Specialist
Group Migration
The
Group Migration Wizard does exactly what you would expect, copying
NT 4.0 group information to the new Active Directory. If groups are
migrated before the member user accounts, ADMT lets you perform a
user account migration on the members or simply bring the membership
information along with the migrated group. Before migrating groups,
you can optionally run the Group Mapping And Merging Wizard to map a
group in the source domain to a new or existing group in the target
domain. This mapping ensures that when the group's members are
migrated from the source domain into the target domain, group
memberships will reflect the mapping. This feature is also useful
for allowing administrators to merge multiple groups into one.
Computer Migration
One of
the most overlooked ADMT features is the Computer Migration Wizard.
At first glance, it appears this feature is used only to re-create
identical computer accounts within Active Directory. However, the
tool goes much further than that. Remember that logging on to a
Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 workstation with a new user account,
even with the same login name, creates a new user profile on the
machine. This means all previous settings, such as desktop
appearance, shortcuts, and printers, are lost. This can cause
problems for users and the administrators that support them. The
Computer Migration Wizard can dispatch an agent to the NT 4.0 or
Windows 2000 workstation that will migrate all local user profiles,
so when the users log on to the workstation with their new Windows
2000 account, they will receive the same profile settings as before.
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