Pre-Migration I

Migration Terminology

Migration terminology reference used in conducting a migration project with DomainReconfigure:

Migration, migrate and domain migration:
The recreation of objects such as users, groups and computer accounts with object properties from one domain to another. Although objects names maybe the same, the recreated objects are unique with new SIDs that do not retain permissions from the original domain without performing either a SIDHistory or an Update process.

SIDHistory Process:
SIDHistory process is the ability to associate an account, users or groups, to append the SID of the original account as a property to the newly created account. The new account will have access rights and permissions using the SID of the new account and the original account.
There are limitations to this method when account name is used for permissioning such as domain\account.

Update Process:
The update process is the alternate method to SIDHistory to associate original account rights and permissions to the newly created accounts. The update process appends the newly created account SID on resources where the original account SID is found. The update process appends the new account SID to files, folders, shares, registry, printers, profile, and mapped drive ACLs where the original SID is found. The new SID is also appended to any local group, domain or computer, where the original account maybe a member.

Source Domain:
Migrations are always performed in pairs regardless of the number of domains involved in the migration project. The source domain is the domain being migrated from.

Target Domain:
Migrations are always performed in pairs regardless of the number of domains involved in the migration project. The target domain is the domain being migrated to.

Roller Over:
Roller over is the process of moving a computer from one domain to another. Both workstations and servers can be rolled over to the new domain. A computer account is created in the new domain, the original account is removed from the original domain and the computer joins the new domain.

Cut Over:
Cut over is the final step of enabling the new user account as the primary user account. This process involves 3 steps, the account has been migrated, and all workstations the user has logged on to have been updated. (You can use Winzero Computer2User to associate users and workstations). When the cut over process happens, the original user account is disabled, the new account is enabled, all workstations are in the new domain and the new domain is set to be the default logon domain.