Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Inside Out

Migrating Group Accounts

Prior to migrating local and global groups you should use the Group Mapping and Merging Wizard to map source groups to corresponding groups in the destination domain. The Group Mapping and Merging Wizard also enables the merging of group members from multiple groups in the source domain to a group in the destination domain. You can use the Test The Migration Settings And Migrate Later option, which enables you to verify that the group mapping and/or merging will occur successfully once implemented.

The information used by the Group Mapping and Merging Wizard to specify group mapping between the source and destination domains is ignored if the group is migrated to the destination domain. If the group was originally mapped ...