
The Active Directory Migration Tool helps to migrate objects and restructure tasks in an Active Directory environment. What is the Active Directory Migration Tool? This tool comes with a ton of options and wizards to help you migrate across domains and forests within just a few minutes. The good news though is migration is easy when you use Microsoft’s Active Directory because of a tool called Active Directory Migration Tool, or ADMT in short. All this means you’re constantly doing migrations in one form or another. As an admin, you may have to move resources from one project to another, migrate objects as a part of a corporate strategy, and more. Security Translation Wizard – Local ProfilesĪDMT Series – 11.Migration has become an integral part of IT operations today. Merging Users with a Different sAMAccountNameĪDMT Series – 10. User Account Migration WizardĪDMT Series – 9. Group Account Migration WizardĪDMT Series – 8. Service Account Migration WizardĪDMT Series – 7. Preparing the ADMT MachineĪDMT Series – 6. Preparing Active DirectoryĪDMT Series – 2. Run the ADMT setup file, and enter the named instance we created earlier.ĪDMT Series – 1. The requirements are explained in the links below: Update Junes 2014 – ADMT 3.2 now supports Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2. If you need to migration a Server 2000 Domain, you will need to use ADMT version 3.1 or earlier. Use ADMT 3.1 for installation on a Server 2008 non-R2 server, or ADMT 3.0 for Server 2003.

Set a SQL administrator, choose the user account you plan to run ADMT under- be aware that this user account will need to have local administrative rights in the source domain (this will be discussed further in the series).įor this series I will be using ADMT 3.2, which is the supported version for Server 2008 R2. Set an account for the SQL service to run under (use your ADMT Service Account).ĥ. Use the ADMT service account explained in the previous post to install SQL and ADMT.ĪDMT requires a preconfigured instance of SQL Server for its underlying data store, so we’ll go ahead and install SQL 2008 SP1 Express on .Ĥ. You should install ADMT and SQL onto a member server in the target forest.
