Target Audience
This document is intended for network administrators, consultants, analysts, Exchange architects, and any other IT professionals who are considering migrating Active Directory or Exchange using Quest Migration Manager.
Assumptions
All migration scenarios described in this document assume that:
If you cannot establish trusts or use SIDHistory due to your corporate policy or other reasons contact Quest Professional Services for a custom migration scenario designed for your specific environment.
Environment Assessment and Planning
Active Directory Management (Delegation and Provisioning Model)
Group Policy Object Link Migration
Mail Redirection between Source and Target Exchange Organizations
NetApp Filers and Other Storage Solutions
The first step in migration is to assess your environment and design an appropriate migration plan. The following tools can help:
The related topics detail our best practice recommendations for environment assessment and planning:
Why Use Trusts?
We recommend that you establish two-way external trusts between each source and target domain that will participate in migration.
If the forest functional level in both source and target forests is set to Windows 2003 or higher, you can establish forest trust between the forest root domains.
Trusts make it possible to resolve objects’ security identifiers (SIDs), which in turn helps to distinguish objects and enable you to check whether everything is going right. Trusts also help provide co-existence of the source and target environments during the migration process, including uninterrupted access to the resources for both switched users and users not yet switched.
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NOTE: Remember that external trusts between Active Directory domains that belong to different Active Directory forests are not transitive. You should establish trusts between each source Active Directory domain and target Active Directory domain individually. |
If Trusts Are Not Established
When deciding whether to establish trusts, remember that if no trusts are established, the following restrictions apply:
The migration scenarios described in the Basic Migration Steps topic assume that trusts are established between the source and the target domains.
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