AD Upgrade Question

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Mr. Upgrade

I have 2 NT 4 Domains; Student with 2000 pcs and about 10
user accounts, and Staffnet with about 300 pcs and about
400 useraccounts. I want to merge the two domains into one
during the upgrade process and name it staff.lcl.

The original process I thought about taking was creating a
new windows 2000/AD forest named staff.lcl and use ADMT to
move everything from Staffnet and Student to staff.lcl.

However, this seems to be a lot of work so I was thinking
it might be better to just upgrade Staffnet to AD
(staff.lcl), switch it to native mode and then use ADMT to
migrate the Student domain into staff.lcl.

Due you think this would be a better way to go?

Thanks in advanced for your help.

Wayne
 
it might be better to just upgrade Staffnet to AD
(staff.lcl), switch it to native mode and then use ADMT to
migrate the Student domain into staff.lcl.
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I would choose this option unless there were NT 4.0 BDCs in the Staffnet
domain that needed to be kept.

You also might want to determine if these 2 domains will require different
account policies. If they require different account policies you will have
to keep the 2 domains separate. Only 1 account policy to a domain.


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
 
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Only 1 account policy to a domain is somewhat true. You
can still apply account policies to OU's.

!!--
There is only one account policy in Active Directory, and
it applies to the root domain of the domain tree. This
default domain policy is the default for all Windows 2000
domain members.

There is an exception that will allow different password,
lockout, etc.. policies.

You can configure account policies for organizational
units, which would apply to all computers within the OU.

This would allow the default domain policy to be applied
when the user logs on to the domain, but the OU policy to
apply when the user logs on locally.

NOTE: Domain controllers have no local accounts, so OU
policies do not apply.
--!!
 
This is documented in the following article:

255550 How to configure account policies in Active Directory
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255550

Rick Rieser, (e-mail address removed)
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