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Article: Migration migraines; Moving from Windows NT domains to Active Directory is never simple, even with the four products we tested that are supposed to ease the pain.(Company Business and Marketing)
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- Network World
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- January 29, 2001
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If you're not concerned about the magnitude of the task required to migrate to Active Directory, you probably don't run Windows NT. But the reality is that if you're planning a migration, don't plan to take any time off soon.
Four firms offer tools that can help you make the transition from an NT 4.0 domain-based network to Windows 2000 Active Directory. These third-party products are Aelita Software's Controlled Migration Suite, BindView's bv-Admin for Windows 2000 Migration, FastLane Technologies' DM/Manager and NetIQ's Domain Migration Administrator (DMA).
In our tests, two of these stood out as having the best tools for performing a migration: ...