Moving workstations to a new DC

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Hi all,

Does anybody know if it is possible to copy all of the workstation ID's from
Active Directory on one server over to a new server with out having to go to
each workstation?
We are having a new server installed to replace our aging current one. Both
are Windows 2000 Server.
Any help / advice would be of much use. I have already tried the
admodify_1.6 program but this does not let you copy workstations over, only
usernames.

Many thanks.

Chris.
 
You don't need to copy things between domain controllers - they replicate all
domain info.

If you wish to a replace a DC, this may help:
-- http://www.msresource.net/content/view/24/47/


If you wish to move computer accounts from one domain to another, you can do
this with netdom. You'd do it something like this:

netdom move /domain:domainName /userd:domainName\userAcc /passwordd:* /reboot


Where domainName is the domain that you wish to move the account to.
passwordD:* will prompt for a password. You can guess what /reBoot does...


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Paul Williams

http://www.msresource.net/
http://forums.msresource.net/
 
Thanks for the reply ptwilliams. I'm trying to basically copy the original
domain to keep as much of the work down as possible.
I'll have a read through the links and information you've given me.

Many thanks.
chris.
 
Ah, that's a little different. If you wish to create a new domain, and
migrate users and computers from the old domain, you're best off using ADMT
(Active Directory Migration Tool) - a free app from MS.

Search Microsoft for ADMT and see if this is what you're after.

The info. that I provided was with regards to a new DC in an existing domain
replacing the orginal and moving computers from one domain to another. ADMT
will do a lot more than netdom...


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Paul Williams

http://www.msresource.net/
http://forums.msresource.net/
 
I'm trying to keep the domain name the same, along with the same server name.
I currently have a server, 2kserver that is the DC for the ADMIN domain -
The new server I am trying to set up is hopefully going to be the same set
up.

Thanks for your help with this ptwilliams.

Chris.
 
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