Moving user permissions to a new NT server

[bobdylan]

We are moving onto a new installation of NT Server soon and I would like to know if there is any way of moving all the users and their permissions to the new box without having to create them all from scratch. Please help!

 

[Voyager1]

You'll probably need a third-party migration tool to accomplish this. I'm not sure of a good one, perhaps some of the other contributors can mention one.

NTFS permissions, when a folder or file is copied from one disk to another, get reset. I'm sure there's a way around it...anybody?

Good luck! - Bill

"You can get anything you want out of life, if you'll just help enough other people get what they want" - Zig Ziglar

 

[kjonnnnn]

Ummmm....

Why cant you just set the new server (and I assume its going to be a PDC), up as a BDC. When you take the old server offline, just promote the new one to be PDC. The accounts will be there.

 

[peterve]

If you want to migrate shares, and NTFS permissions then you can use these 2 tools :

hyena copies shares (including the permissions), and after creating the shares on the new server, you can copy all of the files using scopy.exe (from resource kit) to copy all files including their ntfs permissions... Peter Van Eeckhoutte
peter.ve@pandora.be

 

[polymath5]

The easiest to us, but not cheap is a utility at

http://www.smallwonders.com

it's called Secure Copy. Does exactly what you want. You could also just copy the folders and use Security Explorer from Smallwonders.

As mentioned before, scopy will do it too. Scopy with Robocopy makes a good combo. Hyena is a great utlitiy for part of it, as is Dameware NT utilities.