How to Migrate Local Server Users and Groups Only Between Member Servers

View our complete document to help you migrate server accounts, local user accounts with properties, with passwords and local server groups from Windows member server to Windows member server with similar or different OS versions.

Both ADUM ServerMigrator and ManageRED Resemble solutions allow for the migration of local accounts form server to server automatically.


User Accounts

·         User account samAccountNames are recreated on the target server.

·         Passwords for each account are copied.

·         User name and description properties are copied to the target

·         Terminal server settings and properties are copied to the target server for each account that is populated on the source server

·         All user rights are migrated to the target server.

Local Goups

·         Local group samAccountNames are recreated on the target server.

·         Group description properties are copied to the target

·         Group membership is populated with migrated accounts of the target server in the same samAccountName structure as the source server.

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Migrate Local Server Accounts to Domain Accounts

ADUM Server Edition, using the ServerMigration App, will convert local server user accounts and local groups to domain accounts and maintain resource security without user impact or downtime..

This process will recreate the source account in the target domain and in any selected OU.
User properties are copied to the converted domain accounts including passwords.
Local groups can be converted into domain local groups then populated with the new migrated domain user accounts.

Once the accounts are created, the source server is reACLed for files, folders and shares using an append process, whereby both the local accounts and domain accounts have the same access to resources. This is done because of the different SIDs between local and domain accounts.

The last step,  once satisfied, know as the cleanup process, is to remove the local accounts from the server and the resources.

ADUM also includes third party free tools to automatically repermission SQL databases with the new accounts

Because ADUM Server Edition includes 1 hour of support, once purchased a ManageRED Migration Expert can get the client started with the the process of converting local accounts to domain accounts.

ServerMigrator is the ONLY software to perform this task on the market today.


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Migrate Accounts from Workgroup to Domain Server

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Software Effected:
ServerMigrator 2007

Issue:
I am looking for a product that is able to copy local user accounts and passwords from one Windows 2003 server to another Windows 2003 server, one server is in a workgroup, and the other is joined to a domain. Can this be done with any of your products?

Solution:
When Migrating from a member server in a Workgroup (DMZ, Workgroups, Offsite) to a member server that is a member of a domain or a different workgroup the main challenge is connectivity and Administrative rights. Normally to perfom member server to member server migration, one account is required that has rights on both the source server and the target server.
In the case of workgroups the "ADMINISTRATOR" account must be used, the passwords of each account must be the same and there must be connectivity betwen the two server.

Winzero has created another scenario to this situation where one of three requirements can not be met.
NCS Migration (Non Connected Servers).
By installing ServerMigrator on both the source and target servers, the user accounts, passwords, user properties, local groups, local group members, NTFS Folder permissions and share permissions are collect on the source server, translated and then recreated on the target server in two steps.

For detailed information go to ServerMigrator and follow the NCS Migration link