Computers Fail to Join New Active Directory Domain

Bulletin: 051509

Software Effected:
WADMigrator, WSBSMigrator

Issue:
When migrating workstations or servers from one domain to another domain in a Microsoft Active Directory enviroment, the migrate computer process does not take affect and the remote computers do not reboot and join the new domain.

Solution:
This issue only occurs when the administrative account password of the source domain or the target domain contains a character:(!@#$%^&*+<>~??-). Active Directory uses LDAP to perform computer migration functions, a special character becomes an escape character and the character is removed in translation.

To perform a successful computer migration (move a computer from one domain to another domain) both the source administrative account password and the target administrative account password perfoming the migration must only contain alpha-numeric characters. Winzero would like to thank Jay Weiner from Feature-Walters for his research and solution to this now known issue.