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Michael
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:50 pm Post subject:
Migrate Local Accts to AD |
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I have a stand alone server that I want to join to an AD domain. How do I
move the local accounts and security groups to the AD?
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Paul Williams [MVP]
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:
Re: Migrate Local Accts to AD |
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If there is no existing DC, promoting this server into a DC will
automatically upgrade the accounts. If there is an existing domain, these
accounts will be lost. I'm not aware of a tool that will migrate them. In
this scenario, you will have to recreate them.
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Paul Williams
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Paul Williams [MVP]
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:51 pm Post subject:
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Yes that will work. As long as the target domain is in Native Mode.
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Michael
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:51 pm Post subject:
Re: Migrate Local Accts to AD |
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Thanks for the response Paul.
That's what I thought. I did have an idea to create a seperate domain with
the stand-alone and use the ADMT to migrate the accounts to the current
domain and remove and re-install AD on the stand-alone joining the current
domain.
Kind of a messy solution, but would that work?
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"Paul Williams [MVP]" wrote:
| Quote: | If there is no existing DC, promoting this server into a DC will
automatically upgrade the accounts. If there is an existing domain, these
accounts will be lost. I'm not aware of a tool that will migrate them. In
this scenario, you will have to recreate them.
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Paul Williams
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services
http://www.msresource.net | http://forums.msresource.net
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