Syncronize all user accounts

[dhaase]

Hello Group,

I hope this is the right group for my question, so forgive me if it's
not.

I have to move a large intranet from a Windows 2000 standalone server
to another which uses local accounts, about 2000, for acess control on
web sites.

I would like to know if my idea for doing that migration is right:

1) first I do a dcpromo on the actual server to have all my accounts
in AD

2) then I join the new server to the AD domain

3) I let all accounts syncronize then I remove the old server from
domain

4) last I can do dcpromo on the new server to have all user accounts
locally

Could this work?

All help is appreciated.

Bye,
Dirk

 

[Matjaz Ladava [MVP]]

No, because when you will demote your AD you will lose all your accounts.
Those accounts will not be transferred to local SAM on the server. Sorry.

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Matjaz Ladava, MCSE (NT4 & 2000), Windows MVP
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