Company Consolidation - Adopting User Naming Conventions

[lantrumpet]

We have acquired a new company and are bringing their LAN into our WAN. They currently are running on Netware 4.11, but will be upgrading to 6.0. Their current usernames do not match our naming conventions, so when they upgrade, we are requiring them to adopt our naming conventions. What is the best way to accomplish this while maintaining their access rights? We thought about just renaming each username, but we have already added the new usernames to their context in our tree in preparation for their upgrade. This has to all happen over a weekend, so when the users leave on Friday evening with their old username, the will come back on Monday having to use their new username. Should we use Trustee.nlm? Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

 

[Provogeek]

If you had not already created the new user ID's in the destination context, this would be easier.

You are on the right track, using the trustee.nlm (or TBACKUP) will be a good way to go. This will create a text file that you can go through and edit User ID. Then your restore of trustee rights will go to the new user ID. This will be time consuming, hope you don't have many users to edit.

What I would do
If there is no current need for the new user ID's in your corporate tree, delete them.

After you upgrade the 4.11 server to 6.0 (be sure DS version match), merge the aquired companies tree into your corporate tree. If the aquired tree as all objects under an OU and not just under the O, your job is simple, if all objects are under the O, your job is hard. Once you merge the tree's your corporate tree will have an O from the aquired companies tree. Move all objects in the O to were you want them to go in your corproate tree. If you have all objects under an OU, create a partition at the OU level, and then move that partition to the location you want it in your corporate O.

Then, to get the user ID's to the company Naming Conventions, do a rename, and create an alias with the old name. Have the alias of the old name point to he new name. This will help ensure functionality for users who don't follow directions.

Then as time goes by, you will be able to phase those alias names out as you ensure trustee rights convert to the new name. File system rights may be in the file system, but in NetWare they are replicated to NDS.

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