Moving users to new domain

[ravenadsl]

Hi,

 

Is there a way of importing users to active directory from a.csv file?

 

 

Thanks for any help.

[mavhc]

Yes, but there are ways to move accounts directly from one domain to another, complete with passwords etc, what are you trying to do?

[ravenadsl]

Yes, but there are ways to move accounts directly from one domain to another, complete with passwords etc, what are you trying to do?

 

That sounds just like what i want. im trying to replicate the useres in both domains.

 

currentley we have 2 domains server 2003 + win XP and 2008R2 + win 7

 

there running side buy side at the moment while i setup the new domain. i want to get all the new users into the new domain without having to type in all 800 users one buy one

 

Thanks.

[mavhc]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ae279d01-7dca-413c-a9d2-b42dfb746059&displaylang=en Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.1

 

Any reason you're making a completely new domain and not just having 2 servers on 1 domain and moving things over step by step?

[ravenadsl]

Download details: ADMT v3.1 Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.1

 

Any reason you're making a completely new domain and not just having 2 servers on 1 domain and moving things over step by step?

 

Yer we have some strange problems lurking arround, our current domain was upgraded from winNT so we just want to start with a clean slate

 

Thanks for you help!

[mavhc]

Good point, if you're starting from scratch don't forget to use DFS, makes things much simpler in the long term, although it doesn't like hidden shares really.

 

I create 2 root dfs shares, domain.local\domain and domain.local\share$, which helps a bit, and you can apparently set folders in dfs to be ntfs hidden.

[ravenadsl]

Download details: ADMT v3.1 Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.1

 

I have downloaded this tool but it wont install on Server 2008R2 and i cant find a newer version

[mavhc]

I'm never sure when MS says "installs on windows 2008" they also mean r2, should do really, what error?

[ravenadsl]

I'm never sure when MS says "installs on windows 2008" they also mean r2, should do really, what error?

 

the error was "install on server 2008" that all.

 

i used a virtual computer with a 30 day trial of server 2008 and everything worked fine. thanks for you help!