Microsoft first introduced the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) as a way to migrate from Windows NT to Window 2000. Since shipping Windows Server 2003, Microsoft has made some changes to the ...

Leon Erlanger is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology and is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. School districts have been busy coping with the end ...

I'm on a project that needs to jump from AD 2003 to AD 2012 via an interim 2008 domain. ADMT currently does not support migrations into 2012 without lowering the functionality level. The client is not ...

Solution providers won't be retiring early on the revenue they bring in from Windows Server 2003 migrations alone, but the smart ones will mint a fortune. Microsoft channel partners say they are ...

Tony Northrup is a developer, security consultant and author with more than 10 years of professional experience developing applications for Microsoft Windows. Windows Server 2008 includes a handful of ...

As I prefaced in my previous article “Free Migration Tools to Windows 2008 R2” about these free migration tools from Microsoft that help organizations migrate from Windows 2003 and 2008 servers and ...

Tomorrow night I will be migrating a Windows 2003 (Win2000 mode) domain to a Windows 2000 native mode domain.<BR><BR>User accounts which match the source usernames have already been manually created ...

When it comes to adopting new operating systems and applications, common practice among system administrators is to delay adoption until the release of the first service pack. Admins found plenty of ...

In the past, any time a new Windows operating system came out you had to manually migrate server configuration settings and data, or go out and buy a 3 rd party tool to assist with the migration or do ...

Installation capabilities that come with Windows 2003 Server aren’t enough for many enterprise deployments. Fortunately, both Microsoft Corp. and many third-party vendors are offering migration tools ...

In the midst of a massive datacenter consolidation, a techie discovers that the devil is in the details when dealing with a problem server At the time of this story, I was involved with a huge ...