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ADMT is Microsoft's Active Directory Migration Tool.

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Associate old domain user profiles/files to accounts on new domain

I have 2 domains, A and B. We are migrating our user profiles and computers from A to B using ADMT. Our test accounts and machines migrate fine, however the only issue is that it updates the SID, so ...
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Microsoft's ADMT not migrating updated AD ACLs

Can someone please help me with the following I set up a LAB consisting two single DC AD Forests (two separate AD forests) as I wanted to install and become familiar with Microsoft's ADMT (Active ...
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Active Directory migrations and profile security translation (something's going wrong)

This is a general post not seeking a technical resolution to a precise problem. I just want to warn industry colleagues. My career focus has been on AD for 20 years. The precise niche I concentrate on ...
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Active Directory 2016 trust issues

I am trying to set up a forest trust and use ADMT to migrate users using this set of instructions; ADMT Instructions . I am having issues getting the two-way trust to work. Domain A (testad.domain....
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How Does ADMT Use SQL? Can I point it to an existing instance?

I'm using ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) to move users from a child domain into a parent domain. Since one of the requirements is to use a SQL Server I'd like to point it to one that already ...
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Active Directory merger

I have 2 domains that I need to merge. For examples sake lets name them like so: Domain 1: Cat Domain 2: Dogs.com Domain 1 is a single homed domain, which makes everything more fun. Both domains ...
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Forest trust on the same subnet to migrate users

Wondering if anyone could offer some advice on something. I have a domain that desperately needs to be upgraded. Typically, one would add a new DC with a reduced functional level to the domain, ...
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Active Directory Migration Tool download come in a .dlm file, what is a .dlm?

We are preparing to migrate a 2003 Windows Server to 2012 Windows Server. We will need to migrate our active directory, and microsoft offers a free download for a Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT ...
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Merging SIDs between Forests?

Currently, I have two forests, domain A and domain B with an external, two-way, non-transitive trust. Users in Domain A also have an account in Domain B (not all users in Domain B have an account in ...
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need to migrate single label domain name

Our company has 8 sites, all on different subnets and connected via (slow) MPLS, and about 250 users in AD, and Exchange 2007. The current infrastructure was put into place prior to me coming on ...
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Moving site server (not PDC) into it's own new domain keeping current user accounts and permissions intact on file shares

I haven't been officially Microsoft trained so forgive my incompetence discussing what we want done and how to go about it. We currently have a MPLS style network hosting different sites which each ...
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How do I migrate, and rename a computer using ADMT command line?

I've checked all the ADMT documentation, experimented with negative results and am unable to get ADMT to rename a computer during a migration. The command I'm using is: C:\admt>admt computer /f:...
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AD and Exchange Migration - 2003 to 2008 R2

I am working on a project where we need to migrate a 2003 AD domain to a 2008 R2, they also have exchange 2003 in place, and all users account would need to be migrated to exchange 2010. So, what I ...
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ADMIN$ and other shares not working remotely on XP machines

I'm trying to use ADMT to migrate several XP machines to a new domain and the utility (nor command line) is able to access the admin$ share or any drive share. I've added the required registry key (...
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AD Migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011

I am looking at doing a cross forest AD migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011. I have a new server that runs SBS 2011 with a new domain name and am looking at moving all the user profiles from say old....
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Child Domain Migration to Parent Domain

Our company is planning on moving from a single forest with multiple domains to a single forest with a single domain. This is my infrastructure: Forest Root ROOT-DC.techtunes.lan ROOT-ADC.techtunes....
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Active Directory Merge - Merging User accounts

I need to merge two active directories, OLD and NEW. However, many users already exist in both OLD and NEW with the same userid. I want to preserve the sid of Bill@new, while merging in the sid ...
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Migrating User Profiles/Merging User Accounts in Two AD Domains

We have two domains in separate forests and need to merge/migrate them. I believe a simple migration with ADMT will move all the local user profiles over, and will not be a problem. The potential ...
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computer and User Account Migrated using ADMT but not sending mail

I have successfully migrated a User and Computer account using ADMT. The user is able to login to the computer with the new account and is able to open outlook receive mail but is not able to send ...
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ADMT TcpipClientSupport issue

I am in the process of trying to start moving my AD accounts to my new domain using ADMT 3.1 but when I do a user migration I get the following error in the error log. 2009-12-08 14:55:32 ERR2:7435 ...
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SQL 2000 and group names

I have a SQL 2000 server which has databases, under user section of the database object, I have some NT 4.0 groups. These groups were migrated over to Active Directory some time ago using ADMT with ...
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Does the active directory migration tool keep the same user SIDs?

I have to do a migration of my active directory to a new domain. I know that a lot of the SharePoint and SQL applications we run use domain accounts inside them and I'm worried how the migration will ...
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