Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 9. Migrating to Windows Server 2003

• Selecting the Migration Tools

• General Considerations for Migrations

• Determining the Approach to Migration

• Preparing for Migration

• Migrating Security Principals

• Performing the Migration: An Overview

• Migrating Group Accounts

• Migrating User Accounts

• Migrating Passwords

• Migrating the Computers

• Merging Groups during Migration

• Migrating Domain Trusts

• Migrating Service Accounts

• Security Translation

• Generating Migration Reports

Migration involves moving account information from an existing domain to a new domain. You use migration instead of an upgrade process for a number of reasons, not the least of which is when the server must provide optimal performance (for instance, in environments where high server availability is ...