{"id":309,"date":"2009-07-26T21:24:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T13:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=309"},"modified":"2016-01-02T19:53:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T11:53:20","slug":"branch-office-domain-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2009\/07\/branch-office-domain-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Branch office domain migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Branch offices are typically a very lean setup, 1 may be 2 servers.\u00a0 The number of users at the location can range anywhere from 5 to 70.<\/p>\n<p>If its a single server setup, it poses additional challenges when trying to consolidate the domains. Active directory domain migration tool cannot migrate domain controllers. Demoting the only controller means the file server will lose all the ACLs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The only solution is to move out the DC role to another box.\u00a0 The problem is that you may have to clean out one desktop machine and install Windows 2003 and promote to domain controller.<\/p>\n<p>There is another way.\u00a0 Install VMserver on the desktop OS, usually Windows XP or Vista.\u00a0 Install a guest OS for Windows 2003.\u00a0 Join domain and promote as a domain controller.\u00a0 Move all the roles over.\u00a0 Demote the actual server.<\/p>\n<p>Use the ADMT wizard to move the file server to the consolidated domain.\u00a0 Thereafter you can decide on how to handle the user accounts.\u00a0 Or promote the file server back as a domain controller using &#8220;Additional DC&#8221; option.\u00a0 Transfer back\u00a0 the FSMO roles from the virtual to the file server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Branch offices are typically a very lean setup, 1 may be 2 servers.\u00a0 The number of users at the location can range anywhere from 5 to 70. If its a single server setup, it poses additional challenges when trying to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,23],"tags":[15,374],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","category-work","tag-active-directory","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}