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Gerry Hickman
Hi,
I need to move 35Gb of data to a new server, consisting of home
directories, application run points, Admin installation points (Office etc).
The old file server is running NT4. It's a PDC but there's nothing left
in that domain except itself, and one other NT print server (BDC). All
client PCs have been joined to the new native mode AD domain.
The tricky part is that the new server MUST have the same name an IP as
the old server; there's dozens of shortcuts, scheduled jobs and logon
scripts that will break if they can not find \\ServerName
Here's my plan:
1. Promote the NT print server to a PDC
2. Full backup of old File server to tape (backup exec)
3. Disconnect old server from network (or try to rename it?)
4. Rename the new server and set IP to be that of the old server
5. Join it to the new AD domain as a member server
6. Restore all the data from tape
7. Recreate the share points
Is there anything I've missed?
One thing I'm concerned about is that there are thousands of ACLs on the
files, some of which either map to the old NT4 server itself, or to
the old domain. (e.g. SERVERNAME\Administrator and
OLDDOM\Administrators), the rest map to the new AD domain an are already
being used. I'm not sure what will happen to all these ACLs? Maybe I
need to use CACLS or something to clean them up before the move?
I need to move 35Gb of data to a new server, consisting of home
directories, application run points, Admin installation points (Office etc).
The old file server is running NT4. It's a PDC but there's nothing left
in that domain except itself, and one other NT print server (BDC). All
client PCs have been joined to the new native mode AD domain.
The tricky part is that the new server MUST have the same name an IP as
the old server; there's dozens of shortcuts, scheduled jobs and logon
scripts that will break if they can not find \\ServerName
Here's my plan:
1. Promote the NT print server to a PDC
2. Full backup of old File server to tape (backup exec)
3. Disconnect old server from network (or try to rename it?)
4. Rename the new server and set IP to be that of the old server
5. Join it to the new AD domain as a member server
6. Restore all the data from tape
7. Recreate the share points
Is there anything I've missed?
One thing I'm concerned about is that there are thousands of ACLs on the
files, some of which either map to the old NT4 server itself, or to
the old domain. (e.g. SERVERNAME\Administrator and
OLDDOM\Administrators), the rest map to the new AD domain an are already
being used. I'm not sure what will happen to all these ACLs? Maybe I
need to use CACLS or something to clean them up before the move?