Easiest way to transfer user accounts and files from NT server to 2000 server?

[Scrapster]

We're upgrading our lab and we're getting rid of our old NT server computer. We're replacing it with a win2000 server computer. We don't want to manually type in every account over again and copy files back and forth. What's the easiest way (w/o potentential for screw up) that we can transfer accounts/files over?

 

[Panther505]

Tried this when we upgraded in our lab. Your options are extremely limited:

1 Install nt 4 server as a bdc and allow the users to replicate from the DC (assuming that the system is a DC) and then upgrade the system to w2k. This has many problems and if you are on your campus network then you need to be sure what the policy is with AD as the server will have ad on it after upgrade.

2. Install w2k and manually type everything in- this is the way that we went as the upgrade of the NT4 system was not the best method and the company that I work for has not yet published the AD schema

 

[Scrapster]

damn!

 

[Panther505]

I hear your pain... I spent about 12 hours on a Saturday getting the one in my lab set up and changed over. Additionally remember that you will need to migrate the userprofiles and then reset the security on each share that you move(along with setting up the shares) because the SID will be different..

 

[Woodie]

It can be scripted...but it takes some time. AD allows for direct ADSI Edit calls, so you can read the NT4 Domain accounts, and then push them directly into AD.

Depending on how many users you need to migrate, manual re-typing/re-ACLing may be faster than writing/debugging a script. We're migrating 22,000+ users, so a script made sense.

Check the net too--many companies have come out with utilities for doing this kind of thing.

--Woodie