Determining Domain Migration Strategies

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ClonePrincipal

ClonePrincipal is a utility that consists of the following COM object and sample scripts. You can customize the scripts using Visual Basic.

ClonePrincipal allows you to migrate users incrementally to a Windows 2000 environment without impacting your existing Windows NT production environment. This is done by creating clones of the Windows NT users and groups in the Windows 2000 environment. The benefits achieved using ClonePrincipal in this manner are as follows:

In addition, you can consolidate large numbers of small resource domains into Windows 2000 OUs by using ClonePrincipal to clone local groups.

Note that the AddSidHistory method is a security-sensitive operation with the following constraints:

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