Domain MigrationAdministration for the College Agricultural Sciences

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Domain Migration/Administration for theCollege
Agricultural Sciences

• Chad Beam
• Systems Administrator
• cbeam_at_psu.edu
• 863-2514

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Objectives

• Migrate all AG users and services to a new Forest
  before July 1, 2006
• Provide a Seamless and Transparent migration
  process (as much as possible!!!)
• Centrally manage Exchange and Domain user
  accounts
• Users continue to logon with PSU account
• Improve Fault tolerance for key services ie.
  Exchange, SQL, Web, Data.
• Improve Administration through the implementation
  of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM).

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Current Domain Environment

• AGSCI domain is a Child domain of WIN
• Approx. 1200 users faculty and Staff (1800
  future growth)
• Approx. 2200 workstations
• 82 Servers - 47 Remote Servers, 35 at UP
• 75 Sites (67 County Extension offices, Research
  and UP buildings)

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New Domain Environment

• AG.PSU.EDU Forest
• Production Servers located in Co-Location Center
• Direct trust to the K5 realm, dce.psu.edu.
• Dell CX500 SAN - File and Exchange clusters.
• 82 Servers - 47 Remote Servers, 35 UP Co-Lo and
  Ag Admin Bldg
• 75 Sites (67 County Extension offices, Research
  and UP buildings)

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Migration Process
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User State Migration Tool USMT 2.6.1
What is USMT? A customizable command line tool
that automates the migrations of single or
multiple user settings to different platforms.
http//www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/cits
/dsd/standard/UserState_5.mspx

• Sounds settings
• Regional options
• Office settings
• Network drives and printers
• Desktop folder
• My Documents folder
• My Pictures folder
• Favorites folder
• Cookies folder
• Common Office file types

• Migrated settings
• Internet Explorer settings
• Outlook Express settings and store
• Outlook settings and store
• Dial-Up connections
• Phone and modem options
• Accessibility
• Screen saver selection
• Fonts
• Folder options
• Taskbar settings
• Mouse and keyboard settings

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USMT Implementation

• Capture the users AGSCI profile settings noted
  above, the night of the migration and store
  locally.
• Use USMT to map the AGSCI profile to AG.PSU.EDU

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Active Directory Migration Tool ADMT 2.0
What is ADMT? It can be used to migrate users,
computers, and security groups from one domain to
another. http//www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtec
hnol/exchange/2003/admt.mspx
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ADMT Implementation

• Computer Migration Wizard Migrate computer
  accounts to the appropriate OU in the AG domain.
• Group Account Migration Wizard Migrate security
  groups in the AGSCI domain to the AG domain

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Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Merge
Program(Exmerge.exe)

• What is Exmerge? Enables an Exchange Server
  administrator to extract data from mailboxes on
  an Exchange Server computer and then merge this
  data into the same mailboxes on another computer
  that is running Exchange Server.
• http//support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scidkb
  en-usQ174197

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Exmerge.exe Implementation

• Two Step Mode Copy data from the source server
  (single server) into personal folder (PST) files
  and then merges the data in the personal folders
  into the mailboxes on the destination server
  (Exchange Cluster)
• NOTE It does not support Inbox Rules, forms, and
  Schedule data. Exmerge.exe merges Outlook
  Calendars and Contacts.

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Microsoft Operations ManagerMOM 2005

• What is MOM? ... MOM 2005 provides comprehensive
  event and performance management, proactive
  monitoring and alerting, reporting and trend
  analysis, and system and application specific
  knowledge and tasks to improve the manageability
  of Windows-based servers and applications.
• http//www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom/m
  om2005/Library/ed4712c6-96b5-4241-a2b5-0dfaed30619
  c.mspx?mfrtrue

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MOM Implementation

• 2 MOM Servers
• Primary server monitors 35 UP servers
• Secondary server monitors 47 remote County
  servers
• Migrate security groups in the AGSCI domain to
  the AG domain
• Management packs Exchange, SMS, DHCP, WEB, IIS,
  SQL, DELL OM, Active Directory, Server Cluster,
  SharePoint.

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Resources

• USMT 2.6.1
• http//www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/cits/
  dsd/standard/UserState_5.mspx
• ADMT 2.0
• http//www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/excha
  nge/2003/admt.mspx
• MOM 2005
• http//www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom/m
  om2005/Library/ed4712c6-96b5-4241-a2b5-0dfaed30619
  c.mspx?mfrtrue
• Exmerge.exe (Exchange Mailbox Migration)
• http//support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scidkb
  en-usQ174197

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Questions?