Inter-forest migration problem

[ewallig]

Hi there, in need of some help:

Small shop, one server with W2K SP4 server installed.
We're upgrading to Windows 2003 but I need to change
forest and domain name while maintaining our accounts
(over 600 accounts - school environment). I'm not sure if
I've followed the best path for this, but I installed 2003
on a temporary server in the new forest and applied a new
domain name.

I'm now trying to migrate my accounts and resources using
the ADMT version 2. I established the inter-forest trust
but had to use NETBIOS names as the FQDN would not resolve
(I'm guessing DNS).

Though the trust appears to be there, the option to
validate (or verify) fails repeatedly. As you might
expect, the ADMT can't map back to the source domain
(error code=1231).

Any suggestions as to which way I should go from here? Any
hints on maybe how to configure DNS to resolve between
forests? Everything is on the same subnet, and I can ping
assets in the source domain, just can't do anything else.

Thanks

 

[ewallig]

More information on this - I keep getting an "RPC server
is unavailable" error whenever I try to verify or remove
the trust.

 

[Guest]

OK, got past that one, but now another weird issue. In
reading the Help file for the ADMT, it refers to
the "Translate User Profiles" option as a way to migrate
the user's roaming profiles. When I migrated my test
batch, I discovered that the actual profiles were not
migrated and the path that is stated in each user's
properties still pointed to the old domain/forest.

Is this normal?

Thanks

 

[rbp]

I am doing the same thing migrating a W2K Domain to W2k3 domain to
change the forrest and domain name. Having the same problem with the
trust relationship whereby I can create the trust with a netbios name
but not with a DNS? It won't verify the trust and I get error 1231.
Can you tell me how you got by this? Thanks..


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