Large-scale migration made easy

User Profile Wizard has been used to automatically migrate hundreds of thousands of workstations to new domains. It can be used to migrate workstations to a new domain from any existing Windows network, from a Novell NDS network, or join standalone computers to a domain for the first time.

No need to lose personal data and settings

As the Windows operating system has developed, User Profiles have become ever more important and are now an integral part of the way that Windows organizes data. In some circumstances however, this tying of data to a single user account can be a problem.

Normally, when you join your machine to your new domain Windows will create a new profile for you and you lose all your data and settings – your “My Documents”, “My Pictures” and “My Music” files and all the other information that makes your computer personal to you, like your desktop wallpaper, Internet favorites and the lists of documents you’ve recently opened.

User Profile Wizard is an easy-to-use migration tool that means this doesn’t need to happen – you can share your original profile with your domain logon, and with the User Profile Wizard command line interface and the User Profile Wizard Deployment Kit you can build a scalable, enterprise solution to automatically migrate tens of thousands of workstations.

Scalable – up or down

Unlike some alternatives, User Profile Wizard does not assume that there is an enterprise directory in place. It supports environments from Small Business Server through to Global Domain Consolidation.

Benefits

• Migrates all user profile data and settings
• Automatically joins a machine to a new domain
• Can be used to migrate from a Novell NDS network
• Supports all Active Directory, Windows NT 4.0 and Samba domains
• Includes Enterprise strength scripting support
• Supports push migrations of remote machines
• Intuitive management interface
• 100% replication of user profiles

More information

Please refer to the User Profile Wizard User Guide for full details on using User Profile Wizard. Read our User Profile Wizard Feature Comparison to find out what you get in the Personal and Corporate editions. If you would like to evaluate the Corporate Edition of User Profile Wizard please contact sales@ForensiT.com.

http://www.forensit.com/domain-migration.html

via Outlook 2007 Certificate Error?.

There are different solutions base on various reasons but no one works then you may try by recreating OWA virtual directory which is giving problem.

Check and note the settings of directory in EMC before recreating it, like InternalURL, ExternalURL, Forms-Based Authentication settings ect..

Procedure:

• First step is to identify the directory which is giving the problem.

You can use Get-OwaVirtualDirectory to get the list of virtual directories.

• Now let’s say I have problem while accessing owa directory. Remove it with below command.

Remove-OwaVirtualDirectory “owa (Default Web Site)”

• Now create it again with below command.

New-OwaVirtualDirectory -OwaVersion “Exchange2007″ -Name “owa (Default Web Site)”

Note: if you are recreating other than owa directory which are legacy Exchange directories then you need to use “Exchange2003or2000″ in OWAVersion switch instead of “Exchange2007″

• Now configure the “owa” virtual directory settings like InternalURL, ExternalURL, Forms-Based Authentications etc… & check the OWA by logging with some test users.

To back up the system state (including the registry hives system, software, security, the Security Accounts Manager (SAM), and the default user (but not HKEY_CURRENT_USER)), follow these steps:

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Backup. The Backup or Restore Wizard starts.
2. Click Advanced Mode.
3. Click the Backup tab.
4. On the Job menu, click New.
5. Click to select the System State check box.
6. Click to select the check boxes next to any other files, folders, or drives that you want to back up.
7. In the Backup destination box, specify the destination for the new job. To do so, do one of the following:
   • If you want to back up files and folders to a file, click File.
   • If you want to back up to tape, click a tape device.

     NOTE: If a tape device is not connected to your computer, File is the only backup media type that is available in the Backup destination box.

8. In the Backup media or file name box, do one of the following:
   • If you are backing up to a file, specify a path and file name for the backup (.bkf) file. Or, click Browse, specify a file name and location where you want to save the file, and then click Save.
   • If you are backing up to tape, click the tape that you want to use.
9. On the Tools menu, click Options. Specify any additional backup options that you want on the appropriate tabs of the Options page. Click OK.
10. Click Start Backup.
11. If you want to set advanced backup options, such as data verification or hardware compressions, click Advanced. Specify the options that you want, and then click OK.
12. Review the settings on the Backup Job Information page. Specify whether you want this backup to replace the information that is already present on the destination media, or add this backup to the existing information.
13. Click Start Backup.

1. Stop and disable all Microsoft Exchange services on the server, and then delete
the following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ESE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DAVEX
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ESE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EXIFS
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ExIPC
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EXOLEDB
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\IMAP4Svc
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeAL
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeDSAccess
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeES
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeFBPublish
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeMGMT
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeMTA
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeMU
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeSA
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeSRS
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeTransport
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeWEB
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\POP3Svc
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RESvc

2. Move the priv1.edb, priv1.stm, pub1.edb, & pub1.stm to a safe location,
preferably not under the \Exchsrvr folder.   (these files can be found under ‘Exchsrvr\MDBDATA’ folder)

3. Delete the Exchsrvr folder & all subfolders from the system if possible.

4. Put in the Full Enterprise Edition CD (not the trial version CD).

5. From Start, Run type: <drive of CD>:\setup\I386\setup /disasterrecovery

6. Click Run.

7. Once the setup is complete, you will be prompted to restore databases from backup. (make sure you install all the tools etc that you had before, for some reason it didnt install Exchange System Manager Console by default… so I had to re-install)

8. Dismount Stores. Go to properties of each store, on the Database tab, enable the “this database can be overwritten by a restore”

9. Move the original files back into the Mdbdata folder.

10. Mount each store.