Microsoft’s recently released Active Directory Migration Tool v2 offers important enhancements over the first version. One of Hewlett-Packard’s top AD experts briefs us on the improvements. When ...

Microsoft first introduced the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) as a way to migrate from Windows NT to Window 2000. Since shipping Windows Server 2003, Microsoft has made some changes to the ...

Microsoft on Friday released an updated Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) tool to help with migrations. The new Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.2 (ADMT 3.2) is designed as an aid for ...

If your domain is running fine and you don't have any unsupported charters in any names I would just upgrade the domain. I used the migration tool in a lab and it worked fine for users. I did not get ...

Last week, I waxed nostalgically about the companies that provided the tools many of us used to migrate from Windows NT servers to Windows 2000 servers. Evidently a little wax got into the printing ...

The votes are in, and it’s clear that deploying Microsoft’s Active Directory is a task like none other ever attempted by seasoned Windows NT administrators. The complexity of the directory — from ...

Does anyone have any reference material that tells what ports/protocols are required to migrate users from an NT 4.0 domain to a 2003 Active Directory forest? I have to migrate around 3500 people into ...

Windows Server 2000 support ended in mid-July, leaving more than a few Active Directory domains running on unsupported servers. In a situation that mirrors the scenario affecting many agencies, I ...

Even with the right vendor tools, domain renaming is fraught with gotchas. Turn to the IT community for help getting the job done One aspect of the IT world I truly appreciate is the community’s ...