Migrating Users from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 using ADMT 3.1

Hi guys,

I’m going to talk today about the ADMT 3.1 and the complete process of migrating users accounts

and passwords supported with snapshots.

Active Directory Migration tool “ADMT 3.1” is the latest version that can be run on Windows 2008.

This task will demonstrate with snap shots the process of setting up the ADMT, configuring user’s migrations, setting password export server on the source domain, migrating users’ passwordsand SID history.

First step: installing ADMT 3.1 on Windows 2008 Domain Controller

installing ADMT

ADMT installation file can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ae279d01-7dca-413c-a9d2-b42dfb746059&displaylang=en

During installation the installation Wizard will ask about the database to be used by ADMT, the wizard can use existing SQL 2005 instance or it can install a new instance of SQL 2005 express, in our case we choose to install a new SQL 2005 instance.

Then, the wizard will prompt us if we need to import data from any previous ADMT database, since this is a new installation we choose not o import any data.

Importing previous ADMT data

Then the installation Wizard completes successfully.

Second Step: Installing Password Export Server

In order to be able to export the user’s passwords, we needto install the password export server.

The password export server will need a password encryption file to secure password migration, to create this password encryption file we use the ADMT utility in the command line to generate the file as follows:

1- We navigate to the location of the installation of the ADMT, in our case it is C:\Windows\ADMT

2- We issue the following command C:\Windows\ADMT>admt key /opt:create /sd:”Source_Domain” /kf:c:\Domain.pes /PWD *

3- The utility will then ask you to provide the password and validate it.

After creating the encryption file we move it the source domain controller where we are going to install and use the password export server as in the following steps:

1-Start the installation wizard

2- Accept the license agreement

Accept License agreement

3- Choose the password encryption key file that we created in the previous steps 4- Insert the password that we used to

encrypt the password encryption file

Password Prompt

5- Start installing the Password Export Server

6- Choose the service account that the PES server will run under , this account should be administrator on the

destinationdomain, we chose the administrator in the source domain and made it a member of the administrators group in

the Windows 2008 domain

Up to this stage the installation is finished, the wizard will require the source server to be restarted, after restarting the

server, the PES server has to be started manually.

Third: running the ADMT Migration wizard

To start the migration wizard, we go to the ADMT console on the destination domain controller, “Windows 2008 DC” and
start the user’s migration Wizard.

Start ADMT Users Migration

Choose next to the welcome screen

Start Migration
Choose the source Domain and domain controller, and the destination domain and domain controller. In our case the
source domain is “radmins.com” and the source domain controller is “RDC01radmins.com”,the destination domain
is“nwtraders.com“
and the destination domain controller is “dc01.nwtraders.com”.

Then we choose to select the users from the domain directly and not from a file:

Selecting Users to Be migrated
After selecting the user accounts to be migrated, we choose to migrate the passwords of the users as well and choose the
password export server on that we installed on the source domain controller.

Password Migration

Then we choose the target OU to which we will migrate the users to:

Then we choose the state of the migrated users, we can select that the users will be enabled, disabled, or the same state of
the source domain, also we can select to migrate the source SID of the users, this will allow users to access the resources
that they used to access in the source domain.

Migrated users state and SID migration
When choosing to migrate the users SIDs, the wizard will prompt to enable auditing and creating a group necessary for
migration of users SIDs, by selecting “yes” the wizard will enable these settings on the source domain controller
automatically ad we can proceed.

Enabling Auditing

The wizard then will prompt for a user account with proper privilege to add SID history.

Administrative Account
The wizard then will prompt for options like migrating users roaming profiles, update user’s rights, migrating associated groups, and fix users group memberships.

Migration Options

Then the wizard gives us an option to exclude some users from migrations:

Users Exclusion

Then we can choose how to handle conflicts when they occur

Dealing with users conflict

And finally the migration wizard will start migrating users.

Start Migration Process