RM CC4 to Vanilla

[Zammo]

Hello people!

 

 

I have been given the go ahead to start some tentative moves towards a vanilla network from CC4

 

I have done a little research, and see that there are three ways I can do this:

 

1) One big jump from CC4 to Vanilla - This is almost a complete no go for the amount of disruption and the need for bringing in extra help at substantial cost

2) Creating a new domain, setting up a trust relationship and then moving groups of computers across room by room.

3) Keeping the existing domain, but starting new OUs (with inheritance blocked) and moving the various machines and users across this way.

 

At a glance, number 3 looks like a low risk\easier method, but is there any advantage in going for a brand new domain? Also for those who have done this before, is there any major gotchas I need to be aware of?

 

Thanks in advance

[tech2013]

I would choose 3. Which one did you go for?

[dobsonl]

We did option 3 just over a year ago but from CC3. What we had to do was on the OU that our users were stored in create now user polices and use WMI filtering so they only applied to our newly built windows 7 computer that sat in a brand new OU structure with associated computer policies.

 

The thing that took us a lot of time was configuring SCCM to deploy windows, updates & applications to our "new" machines... The best thing for us with keeping the same domain was not having to touch our Exchange server as it didn't require moving domains and all of users didn't notice any difference as their files remained the same on both systems, this was made easier by having the same version of office on both XP & win 7

[Bob_the_Goon]

I am also currently looking at going with option 3 using the methods described above. Has anyone else got any experience of this? Did it go well? Were there any pitfalls?

[Michael]

Option 3 should work, providing you're doing everything from a new server install. Remember the RM tools/software are also on the server, as well as workstations. You'll also need to re-image all workstations, as RM systems 'mess' with the registry.

[Davit2005]

I inherited a CC3 domain a few years back with enormous issues. Full of Viruses, domain controllers running out of C drive space, no backups, replication issues etc. and every 6 weeks no one could log on to the network for a day or so.

 

As the school wasn't willing to fork out the support for RM we had to break away.

 

Just make sure that you have methods for doing everything that RM does i.e. Re-building PC's, software deployment, user creation, printer deployment etc.