I found the below on NASA website somewhere , but I have modified a lot of the contents and added more questions to Help me in Migration , once I finish the process I will update my experience and how I did it:
Active Directory Pre-Migration Checklist
Domain Information Worksheet:
Prepared by: Ahmad Sabry El
Gendi
- What is your domain type? (NT 4.0, WIN2K, 2003 , 2008 ?) __________
- How many domain controllers are in your Main sites and Branch sites? ________
- What are the names of your domain controllers?
Main site:_____________________
Branch sites:_____________________ - Should user accounts ,service accounts or computer accounts be migrated or will they be recreated?
- Can you provide test machines (or virtualized VM) of every critical Operating system /service that you currently have in your domain for testing ? __________________________
- Can you provide lab verification virtualized environment to authenticate each Application / service that you currently have in your Branch domains for testing ? __________________________
- Does your Backup system (Which vendor?) cover all your Branch site Domain Active directory and / or application? what is the restore time window ?
- How long down time allowed for service out of working hours ?
- Do you have verification check list to confirm all the services running after migration ?
- Do you mind to install Manage Engine Audit Plus for each Branch Site Domain Controller to collect as much as information for logged on user source / destination servers / workstations ?
- Do your domain controllers (Main site & Branches) run any enterprise applications ? Do they authenticate against any of Active directories ? _________
- What enterprise applications do you run in your domain? ___________________________
- Does any enterprise applications (or service accounts or configuration files or services login as) authenticate through the Branch Domain controllers?
- Do you have any MS Cluster Servers , NLB , Exchange DAGs or SQL in Branch site domain? _______
- Is there any non-windows infrastructure is integrating or authenticating against any branch Domain?
- Do you have any VPN , published services , or third party suppliers software authenticate against your any of your branch Active directory Domain ?
- Do you currently have Microsoft Exchange dedicated for your Branch site Domain? _____________
- How are your Branch site users E-mail accounts configured with Exchange ?
- Would you please give a small summary about how your Mail system configured in multiple sites ?
- Is each Branch site Domain has its own Exchange ? or all users belong to main site Mail system ?
- Do any user in Branch site Domain has PST outlook files or archive in local PC ?
- Is there any user data (NOT Settings) are stored with user local profiles ?
- Do you have any policies in place in Branch site Domain? _______ If so, please explain the function:____________________________________________________
- How many login scripts do you have in Branch site Domain? ______ If so, please explain the function:____________________________________________________
- How many file or print servers do you have in Branch site Domain? _______
- Is File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks turned on, on all of your computers (workstations and servers) that will be migrated?______________________
- Is there any file server or mapped drives in workstation or member servers or domain authenticating in Branch site Domain ?
- are there any cross forest shares with cross branch site share permissions?
- Is there any client workstations sharing any production files with cross forest permissions ?
- Do you have any application or licenses relay on user or computer Account SID in Branch site Domain?
- How many active users in each branch (User Accounts) do you have in your domain that need to be migrated? __________
32. Is there any application configured to use Branch site Domain
groups for permissions ?
33. Is there any Branch site Domain accounts are added in local
member server in any of Branches ?
- Will users /computers that have been inactive / disabled be migrated ?
- How many groups are in your domain? _______
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below)
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Global
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Universal
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- How many active computers are in your Branch site Domain? __________
- What Operating Systems are utilized within in your Branch
site Domain? Please list all:
__________________________________________________________ - Do you have any firewalls in your environment that may prevent proper communication during the migration? _________________
- Will you be able to provide additional Back-up Domain Controller while migration in process? ______
- Are you currently running any Microsoft Certificate Authorities? _________
- Do you have any application using LDAP and authenticating based on OU structure ?
- Do you have any backup software dedicated for branch sites and authenticating via its Domain Controllers ?
- Is there any service account used in Proxy , antivirus , IIS or sharepoint authenticating against branch sites Domain Controllers ?
General Comments or Concerns:
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