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ADMT Series – 1. Preparing Active Directory
Introduction to Series After recently using ADMT for an Active Directory migration I thought I'd write a series to document its use and to share any useful tips I found along the way. This first post...
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ADMT Series – 2. Preparing the ADMT Machine
You should install ADMT and SQL onto a member server in the target forest. Use the ADMT service account explained in the previous post to install SQL and ADMT. ADMT requires a preconfigured instance of...
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ADMT Series – 3. SID History
In the first post we setup the trust and prepared Active directory for the migration. One of the last messages provided when creating the trust states: To improve the security of this external trust,...
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ADMT Series – 4. Password Export Server
During the User account migration you will have the option to migrate passwords from the source domain user accounts to the target domain. If you choose to use this feature there are a few steps you...
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ADMT Series – 5. Machine Preparation
This post will look at preparing your workstations and servers to work with ADMT and to make sure you give ADMT the correct permissions and connectivity. Local Administrators Group The ADMT Migration...
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ADMT Series – 6. Service Account Migration Wizard
The Service Account Migration Wizard will identify, migrate and update services that run in the context of a domain user account. ADMT does not migrate services running under the Local System account...
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ADMT Series – 7. Group Account Migration Wizard
Universal, global and domain local groups can be migrated with the ADMT tool. Each group type has different rules for membership, and each group type serves a different purpose. This affects the order...
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ADMT Series – 8. User Account Migration Wizard
In this post we'll run through the User Account Migration Wizard to migrate users from the source to target domain. This guide will cover migrating users that do not exist in the target domain, if they...
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ADMT Series – 9. Merging Users with a Different sAMAccountName
Is the last post we looked at a vanilla user account migration, assuming a clean target domain. There may be a situation where the users have already been created in the target domain with a different...
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ADMT Series – 10. Security Translation Wizard – Local Profiles
This post will cover the Security Translation Wizard from the context of migrating local user account profiles into the target domain. This step is crucial if you want your users to maintain the same...
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ADMT Series – 11. Computer Migration Wizard
This post will cover the process of migrating computers from the source domain to the target domain. After you migrate a batch of local user profiles, migrate the corresponding batch of user...
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ADMT Series – Misc. Cannot open database ADMT – The login failed
If you install ADMT under a different user, you may receive this error when trying to access the ADMT MMC console: Unable to check for failed actions. : DBManager.IManageDB.1 : Cannot open database...
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