Move Computer Account from Domain A to Domain B

[acford]

Hi,

I have been reading through the posts and found things similar to what I want but can't seem to get anything to work?!?

I have a bunch of computers in DomainA that I want to move to DomainB... that's all. Windows 2003 servers, XP clients.

I have tried NETDOM but end up with RPC errors, I have also tried sample WMI scripts from MS that I can't get to work...

Is there not just a little code I can use?!? I do not want to change hostnames, or local admin passwords, or join to workgroups...

Thanks muchly
ACF

 

[Councilk]

Hello, do you have the two way trust setup between the respective domains?

What account are you using to create\move the AD resources?

Did you test the Ldap connection to Domain B?

 

[acford]

Yes there is a 2 way trust between DomainA and DomainB... what can I run to show this?

I am using an admin account that is an admin in both Domain's

I'm not sure how to test an LDAP connection...

 

[sparkbyte]

What script(s) have you tried?

I don't have a second domain to try to move computer accounts to.

I would recomend having a trial domain setup to test something like this with! This is a MOVE and not a copy.

[!]Untested[/!]

Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2



' Bind to current Domain and set some values
Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://rootDSE")
strDomain = "LDAP://" & objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")
Set objDomain = GetObject(strDomain)
arrSplADSDomain = Split(strDomain,"//")
strSplADSDomain = arrSplADSDomain(1)


Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://cn=Computers," & strSplADSDomain)

objOU.MoveHere "LDAP://cn=Computer01,cn=Users,dc=fabrikam,dc=com", _
    vbNullString

WScript.Quit

Thanks

John Fuhrman
Titan Global Services

http://www.titangs.com

 

[acford]

Right, running that script gives me the error:

The server is unwilling to process the request

Is this an authentication issue? Can I put a username/password in that script?

 

[tsuji]

Check out R Allen's sample chapter 8, section 8.5.

http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/2026/08/1.html

In particular attention is drawn to the "Discussion" on the conditions to move sucessfully.