Because of the way you want to do the "upgrade" you'll need to touch each PC
and re-create every account. I would not recommend that you do the
migration in this manner unless there's a very good reason to do so -
instead I would follow the upgrade guide I referenced in the prior posting
to upgrade the domain as it is now.
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"Adrian" <Adrian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> My concerns were more from a workstation standpoint, and not the servers.
> We
> are creating a parallel domain instead of migrating systems over. What I
> was
> wondering is if there was possibly a way to move the workstations over to
> a
> new domain remotely. Migrations all seem to just point at the Server
> standpoint. I can understand having to move the profiles manually, if the
> user doesnt want to have a new one, but as far as moving systems over..
> are
> there utilities for this? or are do we have to touch ever pc because of
> the
> way we are creating this new domain?
>
> "Richard G. Harper" wrote:
>
>> The NT->2003 upgrade process should move all accounts when you do the
>> upgrade.
>>
>> Have you looked at the large number of resources Microsoft has available
>> on
>> this subject?
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/directory/activedirectory/default.mspx
>>
>> (About halfway down the page is a link to an article that addresses your
>> NT/2003 issues)
>>
>> As for user profiles - local profiles are local profiles, you cannot
>> migrate
>> them. In many cases they'll be okay in an upgrade like this but you may
>> need to manually copy over the ones you need to keep on each computer if
>> that doesn't work out.
>>
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>>
>> "Adrian" <Adrian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:9361F8EA-E2E4-4D06-9515-E10C88A8A88F@microsoft.com...
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > We are in the process of moving our users from a Windows NT 4.0 domain
>> > to
>> > a
>> > Windows 2003 AD. I hoping to find any utilities that will move our
>> > workstations over to the new domain, and possibly a utility that will
>> > move
>> > our user's profile over to the new domain account. We use local
>> > profiles.
>>
>>
>>