Migrating your Novell Environment to Windows Server 2003

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Migrating your Novell Environment to Windows
Server 2003
Steve Plank Microsoft UKDarren Catterrall
Quest Software
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Agenda

• Customer Challenges - Migration or
  Interoperability?
• What is Services for Netware?
• Quest NDS Migrator

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Customer Challenges

• Business Problem
• Windows Server 2003 and AD are attractive
  technologies but how do we initiate deployment
  without scrapping our investment in existing
  systems?
• Interoperability becomes the key component of
  their migration path to integrate newer
  technology
• Maximize returns on prior investments made in
  software, hardware, and training
• Reduce cost of supporting and managing a mixed
  network infrastructure
• Leverages existing NDS/eDirectory experts as they
  are extremely valuable in AD planning
• Extend existing legacy investment using newer
  technology

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Netware Migrations
give me tools to help me migrate
I have invested in a lot in Netware I cant just
drop it
migration?I need guidance, services
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Agenda

• Customer Challenges - Migration or
  Interoperability?
• What is Services for Netware?
• Quest NDS Migrator

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What is Services for NetWare?

• Set of interoperability utilities that help
  integrate Windows Server 2003 into a NetWare
  environment
• Directory Synchronization Services synchronizes
  Active Directory with NDS, eDirectory
• File Migration Utility migrates NetWare files to
  Windows Server 2003
• File and Print Services for Netware provides
  Netware 3.x services on Windows Server 2003

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Services for NetWare Overview

• Synchronizes AD with NDS/eDirectory
• Reduces directory management
• Simplifies adoption of Windows Server

• Migrates NetWare files to Windows Server 2003
• Accelerates migration processes
• Preserves access control information

• Enables a Windows 2003 Server to look like a
  NetWare File/Print Server
• Reduces migration costs
• Consolidates hardware support costs

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Services for Netware Prerequisites

• Active Directory
• Schema extensions are added to support MSDSS
  session information
• Must have Schema Admin Rights
• Target domain, objects to be migrated
• Novell Client32 for Windows
• 4.9 SP2
• Must be installed on Domain Controller
• Novell Netware 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
• NDS or eDirectory supported
• Admin Schema rights
• IP protocol supported
• Novell Netware 3.x
• Bindery Support
• IPX protocol supported

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Interoperability With NDS, eDirectory
Windows Server 2003
NDS eDirectory
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1-Way And 2-Way Support
Active Directory
NDS, eDirectory
1-Way

• Changes flow only from Active Directory to NDS,
  eDirectory
• Good for using Active Directory as management
  focal point
• Best when short-term strategy is migration to
  Active Directory

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File Migration Utility

• Supports Netware file migration to Windows 2000,
  Windows Server 2003
• Netware 3.x 4.x 5.x and 6.x
• NDS, eDirectory 8.7.3
• Preserves user permissions at the folder and file
  level
• Logging capabilities
• Uses MSDSS generated mapping file to objects to
  permissions on AD

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File Migration Considerations

• Amount of data being migrated
• Analysis and understand how much user data needs
  to be migrated
• Backup critical data such as user data
• Storage consolidation opportunities
• Consolidate data on to Windows Storage Server
  2003 from multiple Netware File Servers

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Planning a Migration

• Directory restructuring
• OU, Groups, entitlements etc
• Removing Novell Client32 from workstations
• Using NETCFG from the OEM Pre-installation Kit
  (OPK)
• Or wipe and reload
• Logon script modifications
• Drive mappings
• Printer mappings
• ZenWorks application objects
• 3rd party tools

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Services for Netware 5.03 is available at no cost!
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• Services For NetWare Resources
• Services for Netware Information
• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sfn
• Netware to Windows Server 2003 Migration Guide
• http//www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinf
  o/overview/sfnmig.mspx

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Agenda

• Customer Challenges - Migration or
  Interoperability?
• What is Services for Netware?
• Quest NDS Migrator

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Product Schematic
Object Migration
AD Forest
NDS Tree
NDS Migrator Console
Mapping Database
Repermission
Data Migration
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Quest NDS Migrator Features

• Pre-Migration Mapping and Planning
• It facilitates the object and data migration from
  Novell to Windows 2000\2003 Active Directory.
• It allows for object and OU mappings to be
  established before the actual migration so that
  any potential conflicts are identified for
  resolution prior to the migration.
• Flexible Migration of Accounts/Groups to AD
• During user and group migration an account
  mapping can be established between source NDS
  account and the target Active Directory Account.
  
• Ability to establish mappings in the following
  ways
• Using the console to select the source NDS
  container and the destination Active Directory
  container where the NDS objects should be
  created.
• Map NDS objects to existing Active Directory
  users or groups.
• Importing a CSV file with pre-defined mappings
• Importing an Microsoft Directory Synchronization
  Services (MSDSS) file

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Quest NDS Migrator Features

• Intra-NDS Name Conflicts
• Performs a Intra-NDS naming conflict check to
  identify duplicate names within the NDS tree
• Scheduled, unattended data movement
• Scheduled data migrations free the
  administrators time and allow data to be
  migrated during off-peak hours
• Pre-migration file scan
• Scans source and target computers to ensure that
  all files and folders are valid,
• Appropriate access permissions are present
• Target disk has enough free space.

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Quest NDS Migrator Features

• MAC file support
• During the data migration all MAC files are
  automatically identified and their permissions
  properly translated as the files get migrated to
  the target Windows 2000\2003 server.
• Multi Threaded copy engine
• Multi threaded copy engine accelerates the data
  movement from NDS to Windows 2000\2003 and
  reduces the overall migration project.
• Built by Quest Professional Services Organization
• NDS Reporter (Assessment of NDS Environment)
• Workgroup Migrator (Migrate workstations from a
  workgroup to Active Directory)
• Remove Novell Client from Windows 2000 and XP

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Project Planning
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Deployment Considerations

• Location of the NDS Migrator console
• Location of Active Directory volumes (network)
• Location of NetWare volumes (network)
• Obtaining administrative access to all resources
• Database considerations
• SQL 2000
• MSDE

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Deployment Considerations

• Planning Requirements
• Complete list of users / groups to be migrated
• List of volumes to be migrated
• List of project options to be selected
• List of duplicate objects in the migration
  project
• A change control process
• An exception handling process

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Deployment Considerations

• Duplicate Object Detection
• Verify the existence of duplicate objects in NDS
• Verify if the object(s) already exists in Active
  Directory
• Perform clean-up on object duplicates
• Decide on merge options if objects already exist

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Deployment Considerations

• User Group Migration
• Migrate users and groups to Active Directory
• OU Structure considerations
• Password Synchronization
• Complete set of object mappings in database
• Ensure proper object creation and location

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Deployment Considerations

• NetWare Volume Migration
• Migrate data from NetWare volumes to Active
  Directory volumes
• Scheduling Migrations from other servers
• Factors that determine the length of the Volume
  Migration (LAN/WAN Speeds, hardware, etc)

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Starting a Migration

• Creating a migration project
• Setting migration Options
• Need to be set prior to migrating users and
  groups.
• Each project in the Migration Guide contains its
  own set of migration options, set when you define
  that project
• Setting the Global Options

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NDS MigratorSetup and Config
Demo
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Object Migration
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Object Migration

• This stage consists of three steps
• Create mappings between NDS and Active
• Directory objects
• Detect collisions and name conflicts
• Migrate the objects

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NDS MigratorObject Migration
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File Migration

• Creating a volume mapping
• Setting file migration options
• Scanning the volumes
• Migrating the files and folders

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NDS MigratorFile Migration
Demo
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Review

• Customer Challenges - Migration or
  Interoperability?
• What is Services for Netware?
• Quest NDS Migrator