Here are a few points which you can consider while doing computer migration. These points are applicable to all migrations irrespective of the migration tool (ADMT, NetIQ, Quest etc)
Here is a graphical representation of the high level steps involved in an Active Directory migration using ADMT
Pre-creating user account in the target domain is a common scenario these days due to single-sign-on solution, HR management procedure etc
Rights Management Service (RMS) is an add-on to many RMS aware applications. In this article my main focus is to explain how we can utilize RMS technology with Exchange 2003 and how we can take advantage of RMS technology to increase the email security
I am sure we have all either encountered or heard of this "problem" one time or another if the ISA Server is part of the Active Directory Domain. Is it a problem?
You can use Printbrm tool to migrate print queues, printer settings, printer ports, and language monitors from one print server to another. By default this tool is located in C:\Windows\System32\spool\tools location.
Run the following command on the current print server to export printers:
Printbrm -s \\CurrentServer -b -f PrinterSettings
Then run the following command to import printers setting onto the new server:
Printbrm -s \\NewServer -r -f PrinterSettings
The DPM team has released a new whitepaper on “How to protect Exchange with Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010”
You can download this whitepaper from the following location:
An updated version of Active Directory Explorer (1.42) is available for download now.
Active Directory Explorer (AD Explorer) is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor. You can use AD Explorer to easily navigate an AD database, define favorite locations, view object properties and attributes without having to open dialog boxes, edit permissions, view an object's schema, and execute sophisticated searches that you can save and re-execute.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963907.aspx
You can see my “Active Directory Snapshot Creation and Comparison Using AD Explorer” blog on the following link:
http://portal.sivarajan.com/2010/03/active-directory-snapshot-creation-and.html
You can use Active Directory Explorer tool for advanced Active Directory (AD) management. This tool also includes the ability to save a snapshot of an Active Directory database for off-line viewing and comparisons.
First you need to open/connect your Active Directory database using AD Explorer and then create a snapshot. Later, you can use this snapshot to compare it with the current Active Directory database.
If you need to compare the AD snapshot, open previously created and current snapshots. From Compare menu, select the Compare Snapshot option.
As you can see in the following screenshot, it generates a report with “differences”.
You can create scheduled snapshots by launching the tool with the -snapshot command line option.
You can download this tool from the following location:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963907.aspx
I get this question a lot. Where is the "Backup Now" option in DPM? I think we are all familiar with "Backup Now" or "Scan Now" options in different products. We don't have a "Backup Now" option in DPM but we do have a "Create Recovery Point" option. This is basically same as Backup Now functionality.
In Protection tab, expand the PG and Server, right click the protected data, you will see an option called "Create Recovery Point"
