Domain MigrationAdministration for the College Agricultural Sciences

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Title: Domain MigrationAdministration for the College Agricultural Sciences

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Domain Migration/Administration for theCollege
Agricultural Sciences

Chad Beam
Systems Administrator
cbeam_at_psu.edu
863-2514

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Objectives

Migrate all AG users and services to a new Forest
before July 1, 2006
Provide a Seamless and Transparent migration
process (as much as possible!!!)
Centrally manage Exchange and Domain user
accounts
Users continue to logon with PSU account
Improve Fault tolerance for key services ie.
Exchange, SQL, Web, Data.
Improve Administration through the implementation
of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM).

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Current Domain Environment

AGSCI domain is a Child domain of WIN
Approx. 1200 users faculty and Staff (1800
future growth)
Approx. 2200 workstations
82 Servers - 47 Remote Servers, 35 at UP
75 Sites (67 County Extension offices, Research
and UP buildings)

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New Domain Environment

AG.PSU.EDU Forest
Production Servers located in Co-Location Center
Direct trust to the K5 realm, dce.psu.edu.
Dell CX500 SAN - File and Exchange clusters.
82 Servers - 47 Remote Servers, 35 UP Co-Lo and
Ag Admin Bldg
75 Sites (67 County Extension offices, Research
and UP buildings)

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Migration Process
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User State Migration Tool USMT 2.6.1
What is USMT? A customizable command line tool
that automates the migrations of single or
multiple user settings to different platforms.
http//www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/cits
/dsd/standard/UserState_5.mspx

Sounds settings
Regional options
Office settings
Network drives and printers
Desktop folder
My Documents folder
My Pictures folder
Favorites folder
Cookies folder
Common Office file types

Migrated settings
Internet Explorer settings
Outlook Express settings and store
Outlook settings and store
Dial-Up connections
Phone and modem options
Accessibility
Screen saver selection
Fonts
Folder options
Taskbar settings
Mouse and keyboard settings

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USMT Implementation

Capture the users AGSCI profile settings noted
above, the night of the migration and store
locally.
Use USMT to map the AGSCI profile to AG.PSU.EDU

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Active Directory Migration Tool ADMT 2.0
What is ADMT? It can be used to migrate users,
computers, and security groups from one domain to
another. http//www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtec
hnol/exchange/2003/admt.mspx
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ADMT Implementation

Computer Migration Wizard Migrate computer
accounts to the appropriate OU in the AG domain.
Group Account Migration Wizard Migrate security
groups in the AGSCI domain to the AG domain

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Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Merge
Program(Exmerge.exe)

What is Exmerge? Enables an Exchange Server
administrator to extract data from mailboxes on
an Exchange Server computer and then merge this
data into the same mailboxes on another computer
that is running Exchange Server.
http//support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scidkb
en-usQ174197

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Exmerge.exe Implementation

Two Step Mode Copy data from the source server
(single server) into personal folder (PST) files
and then merges the data in the personal folders
into the mailboxes on the destination server
(Exchange Cluster)
NOTE It does not support Inbox Rules, forms, and
Schedule data. Exmerge.exe merges Outlook
Calendars and Contacts.

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Microsoft Operations ManagerMOM 2005

What is MOM? ... MOM 2005 provides comprehensive
event and performance management, proactive
monitoring and alerting, reporting and trend
analysis, and system and application specific
knowledge and tasks to improve the manageability
of Windows-based servers and applications.
http//www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom/m
om2005/Library/ed4712c6-96b5-4241-a2b5-0dfaed30619
c.mspx?mfrtrue

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MOM Implementation

2 MOM Servers
Primary server monitors 35 UP servers
Secondary server monitors 47 remote County
servers
Migrate security groups in the AGSCI domain to
the AG domain
Management packs Exchange, SMS, DHCP, WEB, IIS,
SQL, DELL OM, Active Directory, Server Cluster,
SharePoint.

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Resources

USMT 2.6.1
http//www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/cits/
dsd/standard/UserState_5.mspx
ADMT 2.0
http//www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/excha
nge/2003/admt.mspx
MOM 2005
http//www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom/m
om2005/Library/ed4712c6-96b5-4241-a2b5-0dfaed30619
c.mspx?mfrtrue
Exmerge.exe (Exchange Mailbox Migration)
http//support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scidkb
en-usQ174197

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