Automating Distributed Resource Processing
Resource Updating Manager operation can be automated using Resource Updating Toolkit for PowerShell (PowerRUM). For information how to use it, see the Resource Updating Toolkit for PowerShell Reference.
Common Resource Update Workflows
This section describes common procedures that help update the resources on different types of production servers after an Active Directory migration. These suggestions will work across the different resource updating wizards:
- Exchange Processing Wizard
- Active Directory Processing Wizard
- SQL Processing Wizard
- SMS Processing Wizard
- SharePoint Permissions Processing Wizard
Selecting Objects for Processing Explicitly
By default, a resource processing task processes the resources for all objects migrated by the time the task is created. However, you can manually select objects you want to update the resources for. This is done by creating a custom map for the resource processing task.
To create a custom map
- Select the resource processing task under the Tasks node.
- Click Select Objects to Process Resources in the right pane.
- In the dialog that appears, select the objects you want to update the resources for.
- Click OK.
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NOTE: A custom map is applied only to the task for which it was created. If no custom map is defined for a task, the resources processed by that task will be updated for all migrated objects. |
To delete a custom map
- Select the resource processing task under the Tasks node.
- Click Delete Custom Map in the right pane. Click Yes.
Delegating Resource Update
In a distributed migration project management model, Migration Manager can greatly facilitate resource update at a site or in resource domains where you cannot get administrative access to computers. Decentralizing resource update is also useful if computers to be updated are located across a slow WAN connection and therefore sending multiple agents, no matter how small, would consume too much of the available bandwidth.
In these scenarios, you can delegate the resource updating tasks to the remote site or to other domain administrators who have the required level of access and are located within an area of good connectivity to the computers to be updated.
Resource update can be delegated by either of the following methods:
- Creating a setup package for a preconfigured Resource Updating Manager console.
- Creating a setup package for a resource processing task.
- Exporting an INI file and performing resource update using this file by running the updating tools in stand-alone mode or running resource update from the command line.
These techniques are described in more detail in related topics.