Group Migration
The
Group Migration Wizard does exactly
what you would expect, copying NT
4.0 group information to the new
Active Directory. If groups are
migrated before the member user
accounts, ADMT lets you perform a
user account migration on the
members or simply bring the
membership information along with
the migrated group. Before migrating
groups, you can optionally run the
Group Mapping And Merging Wizard to
map a group in the source domain to
a new or existing group in the
target domain. This mapping ensures
that when the group's members are
migrated from the source domain into
the target domain, group memberships
will reflect the mapping. This
feature is also useful for allowing
administrators to merge multiple
groups into one.
Computer Migration
One of
the most overlooked ADMT features is
the Computer Migration Wizard. At
first glance, it appears this
feature is used only to re-create
identical computer accounts within
Active Directory. However, the tool
goes much further than that.
Remember that logging on to a
Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000
workstation with a new user account,
even with the same login name,
creates a new user profile on the
machine. This means all previous
settings, such as desktop
appearance, shortcuts, and printers,
are lost. This can cause problems
for users and the administrators
that support them. The Computer
Migration Wizard can dispatch an
agent to the NT 4.0 or Windows 2000
workstation that will migrate all
local user profiles, so when the
users log on to the workstation with
their new Windows 2000 account, they
will receive the same profile
settings as before. |
