Migrating domain information

[geggle]

Hi all,

Some of you know that my current place of employment has split off from an existing company. As a result we are going to be installing Windows Small Business Server 2003. This small business server will handle the Windows login domain, be the DNS and NIS server for our Windows and Unix machines, and also be the Exchange Server.

This new server is not an upgrade of an existing Windows Server environment. We'd like to migrate existing users from the current Windows NT Server domain to the new domain in the Windows Small Business Server. Is this possible? Could someone point me towards some useful documentation for this? In particular, is there a way that the existing profile and associated email and installed software on the users' PCs can be migrated to the new domain?

As I mentioned before, we are going to use this server to handle DNS and NIS requests for our Unix machines. Under the Windows active directory thing, it possible for users and groups to exist in the NIS world, but have no corresponding representation in the Windows world?

[mccorski]

Sorry geggle, can't be of much help as far as migrating the user accounts across, but wanted to ask you why are you going for the Small Business Server?? in the past, these all in one servers have been nothing but painful in terms of managment and maintenance. Far better to go for a pure server setup I would think.

Have to say, I have not looked into the SBS 2003, but the SBS 2000 was terrible.

BTW, the Exchange migration tool on Win2K worked really wel for the Novell ==> 2000 migration I did, so maybe this may be of some help for your migration, either way, good luck with it all.

[kyuss]

I'll second the down with SBS 2k notion. It's like you have to learn how to do everything a new way, the SBS way. That POP3 connector gave me headaches......