Active Directory Migration Tool Moving Users before groups?

How are permissions to resources granted? By user or by group?
It's been so long I can't actually remember, but I think we moved users and groups together.
The SIDs will change if things are moving to a new domain. But the migration tool handles that for you.

What are the draw backs of migration users before groups in a interdomain migration? if any
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Active Directory Migration Tool Issue

Hi,
I am currently doing a pilot to migrate users from a Windows Server 2003 Forest (2000 FFL, 2003 DFL) into Windows Server 2008 R2 (2008R2 FFL, 2008R2 DFL).
There is an External Trust setup between the 2 forests.
Having successfully migrated some test users and groups from Source to Target domain, I am able to access resources on a file server located in the Source domain (due to SID history being migrated along with SID Filtering being disabled)
My issue is that I want to now use the Security Translation Wizard to add the newly migrated users and groups to the Source File Servers ACLs, Registry etc.
ADMT is installed on a Target DC and when I run the Security Translation wizard it fails and the log shows the below...
Details for DC01.SourceDomain
Local Machine
    Computer:   DC01.SourceDomain (DC01)
        Domain:    DC01 (DC01)
        OS:         Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 5.2 (3790) Service Pack 2
2012-03-08 15:57:47 Starting Security Translator.
2012-03-08 15:57:47 Agent is running in local mode.
2012-03-08 15:57:47 ERR3:7194 Could not open input file C:\Program Files\OnePointDomainAgent\Accounts000026.txt
2012-03-08 15:57:47 SecurityTranslation Files:Yes Shares:Yes LGroups:Yes UserRights:Yes Printers:Yes TranslationMode:Add CWN WIRRAL.NHS.UK
2012-03-08 15:57:47 Starting
2012-03-08 15:57:47 Translating local machine.
2012-03-08 15:57:48 Skipping A:\, rc=21   The device is not ready.
2012-03-08 15:57:48 Processing C:\
2012-03-08 15:57:51 Skipping D:\. D:\ is a CD-ROM drive.
2012-03-08 15:57:51 Processing E:\
2012-03-08 15:57:51 Processing shares on local machine.
2012-03-08 15:57:51 Processing printer security...
2012-03-08 15:57:51 Translating local groups.
2012-03-08 15:57:51 Translating user rights.
2012-03-08 15:57:51 Translating security on registry keys.
2012-03-08 15:58:11 ------Account Detail---------
2012-03-08 15:58:11 The account detail section uses the following format: AccountName(OwnerChanges, GroupChanges, DaclChanges, SaclChanges).
2012-03-08 15:58:11 -----------------------------
2012-03-08 15:58:11 0 users, 0 groups, 0 msas
2012-03-08 15:58:11 0 accounts selected. 0 resolved, 0 unresolved.
2012-03-08 15:58:11            Examined        Changed     Unchanged
2012-03-08 15:58:11 Files          11755              0         11755
2012-03-08 15:58:11 Dirs            1071              0          1071
2012-03-08 15:58:11 Shares             4              0             4
2012-03-08 15:58:11 Members           15              0            15
2012-03-08 15:58:11 User Rights       61              0            61
2012-03-08 15:58:11 Exchange Objects          0              0             0
2012-03-08 15:58:11 Containers         0              0             0
2012-03-08 15:58:11 DACLs         123187              0        123187
2012-03-08 15:58:11 SACLs             63              0            63
2012-03-08 15:58:11            Examined        Changed     No Target   Not Selected     Unknown
2012-03-08 15:58:11 Owners       123189              0        123189
0           0
2012-03-08 15:58:11 Groups       123189              0        123189
0           0
2012-03-08 15:58:11 DACEs       1003913              0       1003913        1003913
0
2012-03-08 15:58:11 SACEs            66              0            66
66           0
2012-03-08 15:58:12 Wrote result file C:\WINDOWS\OnePointDomainAgent\000026_CWN-DC01.result
2012-03-08 15:58:12 Operation completed.
The error is looking for C:\Program Files\OnePointDomainAgent\Accounts000026.txt which does not exist on the Source Server (where the Agent is installed)
Can anyone help please?

Howdie!
On 08.03.2012 17:32, Wrightyi28 wrote:
> ADMT is installed on a Target DC and when I run the Security Translation
> wizard it fails and the log shows the below...
> [...]
> The error is looking for C:\Program
> Files\OnePointDomainAgent\Accounts000026.txt which does not exist on the
> Source Server (where the Agent is installed)
Is/was AGPM installed on the server you ran the security translation
agent on?
Florian
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Cannot install Windows Azure Active Directory Sync tool on Server 2012 w/ SQL Server 2012

I went to change a user password on the server today and after changing the password I logged into the SQL server to run “Import-module dirsync” & “Start-onlinecoexistencesync” in powershell in order to sync the new password with Exchange Online. After
waiting ten minutes I tried setting up the email on the user’s PC but the new password was not being accepted. I logged into Office 365 and I got the following warning.
"Warning: Last synced more than 3 days ago | Troubleshoot"
So I pressed troubleshoot and the site installed a tool on the server to try and find out what the issue was. After the tool ran it told me that the version of dirsync.exe was out of date and that I should download the new one and install it. So I downloaded
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First it told me I wasn’t part of the FIMSyncAdmins group (so I added myself), then it told me that it could not connect to MIIS server, so I tried starting it and windows said that there was a problem with the sign on used by the service so I had
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while it errors out with the error "The install was unable to setup a required component. Check the event logs for more information. Please try the installation again and if the error persists, contact Technical Support. "
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Can anyone tell me what is going on, I've been looking through the log files and I can see errors but I'm not sure what to do to fix it.

Greetings!
Wanted to know if you've hosted the DirSync tool (latest version) on a VM? Also, if this is deployed in a Production or Lab environment? If it's a lab setup, you may
try installing the DirSync on a new VM / Server (suspecting that it could be some machine related issues).
Here's a Support KB helping with different errors:
http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2684395
If its a production environment, would suggest to raise a
Technical Support Ticket for assisting further with break-fix.
Thank you,
Arvind

Pre-populate adapter for setting the Active Directory OU for a user

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How to manage Active directory and tools to manage Active Directory

How to manage Active directory and which tools we use?

You can use Microsoft Active Directory management tools:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998508(EXCHG.65).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998508(EXCHG.65).aspx
erview of Server Message Block signing
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887429/en-us
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b-4313-a005-4e344e43997d&displaylang=en
AD Admin Center:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560651(WS.10).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560652(WS.10).aspx
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Exchange and EOP and "Windows Azure Active Directory Sync tool".

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Since we are using our on-premises Exchange server and Microsoft EOP only for spam filter, and
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The Windows Azure Active Directory Sync Tool allows you to filter mail in EOP for nonexistent recipients. This is a pretty useful antispam feature that you'll be forgoing if you choose not to deploy the tool.
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"Domain Users" group in Active Directory does not belong to any Group Membership in LC

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Any way to correct this issue, without changing group membership on AD side?
If Active Directory user is member of "Domain Admins" or "Users" then these show same group membership in LC.
Thanks.

If you want to use the Domain Users group for the purpose of representing all the users then you can use the "All principals in domain xxx" group which is created by UM.
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Active Directory migration from domain X to Y

Hey Guys
Planning to migrate Child domain to another child domain inter forest with ADMT
we do have a small environment with Active directory integrated DNS, I do have a rough knowledge of migrating domains but still if there is any checklist kind of thing on priority (i.e migrate users first then do groups then computers then GPO) and let me
know how much time it will take for 500 users 800 machines and 400 groups approximately .
We do not have techinical Architecture guys to plan up , Please list out any excel sheets for migration if any
Went through n number of blogs but still did not get any proper info about this , Thank you in advance

1) I would recommend you first run a test of the steps in test before you do this in production. Otherwise your production becomes test.
2) By doing in test, you have taken a large amount of the risk out of the upgrade since, in test you should be able to look for any unforseen issues. The easiest way to test is to build a virtual fence from production and clone the DC's and member
servers that you want to test against (This is assuming you are running in a virtual environment). Ensure that you production environment is error free.
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/paulbergson/archive/2009/01/26/troubleshooting-active-directory-issues.aspx
3) There should be no downtime at all, you can just extend the schema and then promote a new 2012 DC (I would recommend R2 if you can).
4) Before you do the schema extension you should take 2 backups on two different DC's. Taking two gives you less of a chance of a problem if one of the backups fails.
5)
Take a backup
Extend the schema
Join the 2012 R2 servers to the domain
Add the ADDS role to the 2012 R2 member servers
Promote the 2012 R2 DC's
Transfer the FSMO roles to the 2012 R2 DC's (Not required but recommended)
If you want to retire the 2003 DC's, then you will need to make sure that any clients pointing to the 2003 DC's for DNS are pointing to other DC's.
If you do retire the 2003 then you can think about updating the DFL and FFL of the domain and forest.
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Active Directory Changes have causes users to loose access to Projects they are set as contributor too.

Hello,
We recently had an employee of our helpdesk delete (by accident) and recreate a number of Active Directory user profiles. The profiles were created exactly like they were before, but now those users are not able to access the projects in TFS that they
have contributor permissions too. Some of these users can see a minimal set of objects in the Source Control Explorer, but each item has a (+) plus sign next to it as if the object does not exist in the repository. The users and windows groups
that are concerned are still listed inside of TFS's group memberships for each project. I have confirmed that the sync from AD with TFSJobAgent.exe is completing with out errors as well.
Is this a SID issue where TFS actually thinks that these are new users, and if so how can I best fix it for those users?
Doug Dayley

Hi Doug,
Thanks for your reply.
Ok, let’s check whether TFS Server can identify this user and its groups which this user belonged to. Please execute below command for this one user, then view command result, check if the user name and SID both show correctly in result, and whether this
user belonged to groups all listed in command result.
Tfssecurity /imx “domain\username” /collection:URL
If this user’s all information show correctly in command result. Please try to remove this user from your TFS server, then clean the TFS Cache, re-add this user back to TFS Server, then check if this user can access your team project as expect.
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Clean the Cache folder on Server machine. The folder path is:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 12.0\Application Tier\Web Services\_tfs_data.
After cleaned, on Server machine, click Start and select
Run… to open the dialog box, then input iisreset.exe and click OK, wait it run completely.
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We are planning to migrate from Windows Server 2003 AD to Windows server 2012 Server for 6000 Users,
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1)What is the Best and Safe Way to do Migration
2) What are the Precautions should take,
3) How much downtime it will take,
4) If migration Failed how we can revert to Earlier
5) How to do Migration Step by Step
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1) I would recommend you first run a test of the steps in test before you do this in production. Otherwise your production becomes test.
2) By doing in test, you have taken a large amount of the risk out of the upgrade since, in test you should be able to look for any unforseen issues. The easiest way to test is to build a virtual fence from production and clone the DC's and member
servers that you want to test against (This is assuming you are running in a virtual environment). Ensure that you production environment is error free.
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/paulbergson/archive/2009/01/26/troubleshooting-active-directory-issues.aspx
3) There should be no downtime at all, you can just extend the schema and then promote a new 2012 DC (I would recommend R2 if you can).
4) Before you do the schema extension you should take 2 backups on two different DC's. Taking two gives you less of a chance of a problem if one of the backups fails.
5)
Take a backup
Extend the schema
Join the 2012 R2 servers to the domain
Add the ADDS role to the 2012 R2 member servers
Promote the 2012 R2 DC's
Transfer the FSMO roles to the 2012 R2 DC's (Not required but recommended)
If you want to retire the 2003 DC's, then you will need to make sure that any clients pointing to the 2003 DC's for DNS are pointing to other DC's.
If you do retire the 2003 then you can think about updating the DFL and FFL of the domain and forest.
Paul Bergson
MVP - Directory Services
MCITP: Enterprise Administrator
MCTS, MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security, BS CSci
2012, 2008, Vista, 2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT4
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SBS 2008 to Server 2012 R2 Active Directory Migration

Is there a tool that i can use to migrate Active Directory from SBS 2008 to Server 2012 R2?

There is no special tool for your situation. While there is a tool called ADMT that you may see mentioned if you search enough, it isn't really well suited for what you want.
With that said, there is also no *need* for a tool as I've already said. Nor do you need to recreate the users and have mismatched SIDs. You will add the 2012 machine to your existing domain and make it a domain controller. Yes, that means you will have
two DCs (for a time.) This is how larger organizations handle multiple DCs all the time, and they obviously don't go and create the same user on each DC. That is where the domain replication comes in. Your new server will be a DC and will replicate
all of the users *and* SIDs from the existing SBS server.
Then, when you are ready, you decommission the SBS 2008 server gracefully and the new 2012 server becomes your sole DC, but has AD completely intact. It is a tried and true practice, both within and outside of the SBS world, and has been done many many times.

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Upgrade worked fine, everything went through as expected. When I got home with computer, couldn't login. I did eventually get logged in, computer became extremely unresponsive at intermittent times.
At work next day, everything worked fine.
I believe this is a problem with 10.5.5 computers that are bound to AD, when AD is not available (but internet is.) Some type of weird priority locking or timeout setting? It seems to fail immediately if no network is available, but if the internet is available it is like it gets "hung" waiting for a response.
Anybody else having similar problems?
Below are the details on the specific tests that brought me to this conclusion.
1) Boot with work network cable connected - Works fine
2) Boot with work wifi network enabled - works fine
3) Boot with public wifi network enabled and work cable - works fine.
4) Boot with only public wifi - appears "frozen" (turned off after 5 minutes of trying to login)
5) Boot without network or wifi - works fine using cached mobile account info
6) Boot with network cable and public wifi, remove network cable after login- works fine for a period becomes periodically frozen. attempts to do anything become queued, when computer starts responding queue emptys out (can see menus / applications switch around to correspond with clicks.)
7) Change account to Manual sync of mobile account, again boot with network cable and public wifi, remove network cable- no freezing responds normaly.
All steps repeated after rebinding computer to AD - same results.

First rule of installing an upgrade, run permissions repair both before & after. Did you do that?
I'm using a Mac dual bound to AD & OD, works perfectly. I can't speak for the exact setup of your network but I personally would be suspicious of AD. I had a similar issue some time back where my processor would go crazy with the net directory authentication running like crazy. Turned out AD had somehow forgotten my computer. It only happened away from work where my Mac couldn't contact the AD server (not exactly sure why). I'd try the following.
1. While at work create a local administrative account on your Mac (you should always have a backup account anyway).
2. Login as local admin account.
3. open Directory Utility from the Applications/Utilities folder & remove the AD server (you'll need an account that can bind machines to AD).
4. re-add your Mac to AD.
This may resolve your issue & shouldn't hurt anything in the least.

CMC Authentication Active Directory Synchronization Updates Drops Users

We are using SAP Business Objects on a Windows Server 2008 box and have configured single sign-on using Active Directory. We schedule the Active Directory in the Authentication tab to synchronize every day. Yesterday not all of the users updated and actually were dropped from the CMC. We think it was because one of the domain controllers went down for a group of users during the last CMC Active Directory Update. My question is, are there any log files we can look at for the active directory synch to see if there were any errors detected during the synchronization. It would be nice too, to be able to see a list of what actually happened during the Active directory synch like what groups, users and user group associations where added and deleted.
The result was when the users were dropped we lost any manual security setups and the user lost their favorites and preferences settings because they were dropped. Is there anyway we can insulate our Acitve Directory updates from accidentally dropping users when something goes wrong with the Active Directory Synch Update?
Any best practices would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill

Hi Bill,
Usually, if a group has been deleted or renamed in the AD controller, the group is deleted from the CMC. If a DC is not available, the group shouldn't have been deleted.
As far as I know, there are no options for debugging the action of the schedule. If you suspect that this can happen again, you can enable/disable traces on your CMS programming the creation/copy of CMS_trace.ini when the AD graph/alias schedule is going to happen.
There is an Idea that you can vote to avoid users being deleted when the group is accidentally deleted from the CMC:
https://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/ideas/2645
In the meantime, you can also create Enterprise alias for your AD users, so even if the problem appears again, the security, inboxes and favourites will still be there.
1401058 - How to create Enterprise aliases for LDAP or AD accounts
[https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1401058]
Regards,
Julian

Free JOSE Active Directory Reporting tool in English available!!!

Hello,
this FREE tool is in German language a long time available.
NOW the English version is ready for use also. Please check if it is an option for your work.
http://www.faq-o-matic.net/2013/08/12/jos-active-directory-reporting-english-version-is-live-now/
Best regards
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Hello,
I was surfing the threads to see what is going on until I saw this posts and I was stopped to download this tool. It is a great tool Meinolf ! I downloaded it and trying to check all the reports. So far so good my friend. Also I was amazed once I saw the
nice "Trust Relationship" icon. Every time I run this tool I will definitely check for Trust Relationships first. :)
In addition I was wondering how it is possible to inform you about a method in order to improve the design in this tool?
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