Guest Iain Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Hi - I hope this is the right place to ask this. I need to migrate applications between two web servers. Currently there are a large number of local computer accounts on the old machine. I want to transfer all or most of those (with passwords and groups) to the new machine. I've struggled to find out how to do it. There are lots of tools and advice for AD migration, but I've not found anything for Windows 2003 single machines Can anyone give me some pointers? Cheers Iain
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Re: Migrating local user accounts between two Windows Server 2003 mach "Iain" <Iain@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F3E36A88-0154-4E61-B436-5449DBEAD262@microsoft.com... > Hi - I hope this is the right place to ask this. > > I need to migrate applications between two web servers. Currently there > are > a large number of local computer accounts on the old machine. I want to > transfer all or most of those (with passwords and groups) to the new > machine. > > I've struggled to find out how to do it. There are lots of tools and > advice > for AD migration, but I've not found anything for Windows 2003 single > machines > > Can anyone give me some pointers? > > Cheers > > Iain Copypw.exe and exporter.zip might do the trick. Note that I haven't tried them myself. http://robot.pbwiki.com/UsefulTools
Guest Iain Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Re: Migrating local user accounts between two Windows Server 2003 Re: Migrating local user accounts between two Windows Server 2003 Thanks Pegasus. Sadly .... :( From reading the readme it's not clear that CopyPwd will actually create user accounts on the target machine if they are not present. More to the point, the process of dumping actually fails with an error 'Failed to create remote thread'. I suspect that 2003 server has been 'fixed' so this sort of process won't work (hence why UMST won't work on it). As for exporter.zip - I couldn't run it and the 'help' file won't launch. Any other ideas would be gratefully received. Iain "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > > "Iain" <Iain@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:F3E36A88-0154-4E61-B436-5449DBEAD262@microsoft.com... > > Hi - I hope this is the right place to ask this. > > > > I need to migrate applications between two web servers. Currently there > > are > > a large number of local computer accounts on the old machine. I want to > > transfer all or most of those (with passwords and groups) to the new > > machine. > > > > I've struggled to find out how to do it. There are lots of tools and > > advice > > for AD migration, but I've not found anything for Windows 2003 single > > machines > > > > Can anyone give me some pointers? > > > > Cheers > > > > Iain > > Copypw.exe and exporter.zip might do the trick. Note that > I haven't tried them myself. > http://robot.pbwiki.com/UsefulTools > > >
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Re: Migrating local user accounts between two Windows Server 2003 Re: Migrating local user accounts between two Windows Server 2003 Sorry to hear that these tools failed to deliver. Have you had a look at Richard Mueller's web site? There are quite a few tools that might meet your requirements. http://www.rlmueller.net/freecode4.htm As an alternative you could export all users account details from the old server, using "net user", then massage the output to create accounts on the new server. This would NOT duplicate the existing passwords. How many accounts are involved? "Iain" <Iain@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:55057B8A-6AB6-4A85-99DA-089680FB1AB6@microsoft.com... > Thanks Pegasus. Sadly .... :( > > From reading the readme it's not clear that CopyPwd will actually create > user accounts on the target machine if they are not present. > > More to the point, the process of dumping actually fails with an error > 'Failed to create remote thread'. I suspect that 2003 server has been > 'fixed' so this sort of process won't work (hence why UMST won't work on > it). > > As for exporter.zip - I couldn't run it and the 'help' file won't launch. > > Any other ideas would be gratefully received. > > > Iain > > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > >> >> "Iain" <Iain@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:F3E36A88-0154-4E61-B436-5449DBEAD262@microsoft.com... >> > Hi - I hope this is the right place to ask this. >> > >> > I need to migrate applications between two web servers. Currently >> > there >> > are >> > a large number of local computer accounts on the old machine. I want >> > to >> > transfer all or most of those (with passwords and groups) to the new >> > machine. >> > >> > I've struggled to find out how to do it. There are lots of tools and >> > advice >> > for AD migration, but I've not found anything for Windows 2003 single >> > machines >> > >> > Can anyone give me some pointers? >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > Iain >> >> Copypw.exe and exporter.zip might do the trick. Note that >> I haven't tried them myself. >> http://robot.pbwiki.com/UsefulTools >> >> >>
Guest Iain Posted April 29, 2008 Posted April 29, 2008 Re: Migrating local user accounts between two Windows Server 2003 Re: Migrating local user accounts between two Windows Server 2003 "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > Sorry to hear that these tools failed to deliver. Have you had a look > at Richard Mueller's web site? There are quite a few tools that > might meet your requirements. http://www.rlmueller.net/freecode4.htm I'll check that out. > > As an alternative you could export all users account details from > the old server, using "net user", then massage the output to create > accounts on the new server. This would NOT duplicate the > existing passwords. How many accounts are involved? Around 150 - 200. I have a colleague who has volunteered to do it by hand, but obviously this is prone to error (not to mention terminally boring!). Iain >
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