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This is typically the case when organizations use to operate a “mail forest”, dedicated to Exchange and used another forest for user to log and then decide they want to merge them, preferably keep the one used for mail because it contains rich address book information but also because Exchange is difficult to move from one domain to another. There are some AD migration scenario’s (I’d rather call them “consolidation”) were, for various reasons, the user accounts already exist in the destination domain. The galactic story is going backwards, one prequel at a time…
#ADMT 3.2 REQUIREMENTS INSTALL#
But the problem is: you have to create the database first and then install and configure ADMT while, to get your hands on the tool to create the database, you have to install ADMT first… Catch my drift? It is possible to use ADMT against a remote SQL server. Now for another stuff, just a little bit tricky. Note that that the path contains 90 instead of 80 since the SQL version is incremented. “%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\osql.exe" -E -S %computername%\MS_ADMT -Q"BACKUP DATABASE ADMT TO DI Thanks to SQL2005 you can now backup to a remote folder, example: It’s therefore time to revise my backup/restore process a bit compared to by original post from April 08 ( ) Hopefully, it now uses SQL2005 as backend (remote or local) and comes with extended command-line capabilities for set-up and post set-up configuration Apparently NT4 is not supported as source domain anymore and the migration agent is not supported on NT4 computers anymore…
#ADMT 3.2 REQUIREMENTS WINDOWS#
Sadly, it is not supported to deploy this version of ADTM on Read-only DC’s and on CORE version of Server 2008 or on any version prior Windows Server 2008. Migrating and Restructuring Active Directory Domains Using ADMT v3.1: (I am afraid it contains some typos so be watchful…) Since MSDE is based on SQL2000, it will not support UNC path, only local file system! "%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\osql.exe" -E -S %computername%\MS_ADMT -Q"RESTORE DATABASE ADMT FROM DISK = 'C:\admt.bak'" To backup, execute this command: "%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\osql.exe" -E -S %computername%\MS_ADMT -Q"BACKUP DATABASE ADMT TO DISK = 'C:\admt.bak'" You can also use an “online” method (well known by DBA’s). You can use an “offline” method by stopping the service MSSQL$MS_ADMT, then copying the files ADMT.mdf et ADMT_log.LDF located under %windir%\ADMT\MSSQL$MS_ADMT\Data\ to a safe place and finally starting the service MSSQL$MS_ADMT again. There are therefore basically two methods to back up the database: From version 3, ADMT uses MSDE as database engine. With versions of ADMT earlier than v3, backup was a matter of making sure not one was busy with an ADMT console open and coping the protar.mdb file (a jet-like database). It may therefore be an interesting option to backup the ADMT database, just in case of disaster…
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While in most case, the migration can happen in one day, larger organizations may need weeks to achieve migration. When using standard method of translation, the AMT Tools uses its internal database to store mapping between the user from the security principal (user, group or computer) from the source domain and the one from the destination domain, in order to achieve a SID mapping between both. When migrating or restructuring domains, it often happens that, the first steps are to migrate user accounts and groups and then, gradually migrate computers while translating security.
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Attention: none of the procedure describe in this post are supported by Microsoft, test and use at your own risks!