Migrating PC Local workgroup to Domain

[Guest]

Any suggestions in starting my migration from local workgroup to a domain based network on 2000? 1. Concerned about individual users retaining their settings after migration
2. Is there any one way to approach this to make it easier? Scripting?

Any suggstions are greatly appreciated.

 

[Jeff Cochran]

Any suggestions in starting my migration from local workgroup to a domain based network on 2000? 1. Concerned about individual users retaining their settings after migration.
2. Is there any one way to approach this to make it easier? Scripting?

Individual users aren't going to retain their security settings, you
lose the workgroup settings when you change to a domain. As for other
"settings" you'll have to tell us what you mean by that.

Jeff

 

[boozhie]

Thanks for taking the time to help. Your help is much appreciated.

I understand where you are coming from . . . security settings changing when
based on domain. What do I mean by "settings"? Same question here. Where I'm
getting thrown is I've got a boss trying to corner me on the term "user
settings". I can't see why any individual settings for the PC itself would
change... mail, progs, etc. Unless it is something dependant on the
workgroup/domain based architecture - and it goes without saying that it
will change.

I can't imagine too much changing since they're still running progs locally
and pretty much using the resources of the server for faxing and printing.
Of course I'm all for it because of the centralized administration.

I can always script any mapping of resources to automate the changeover for
drives, printers, etc. Anything else I'm missing? I'm old school Novell and
barely getting my feet wet in Win 2000 networking. Doman based servers, no
problem. But workgroups? Yikes. I've haven't had the pleasure...

Kim

based network on 2000? 1. Concerned about individual users retaining their
settings after migration.