i want to migrate my existing company workgroup to a domain.

hello all,

pls i nid your help!!!!!! pls my company policy
suddenly changed and they now want us to change our existing network
from a workgroup(80 computers in 4 labs connected together by
swithces) to a domain. i have set up a domain controller with ADS, DNS
and DHCP.

the existing workgroup has two ip addresses(one for personnel
administrative computers and the other for the 4 labs). pls how do i
move all of these computers to the new server i just set up, using one
ip address scope?

pls i nid answers and summary procedures asap-
thank you

my e-mail is (E-Mail Removed)







sulebramms@yahoo.co.uk

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> hello all,
>
> pls i nid your help!!!!!! pls my company policy
> suddenly changed and they now want us to change our existing network
> from a workgroup(80 computers in 4 labs connected together by
> swithces) to a domain. i have set up a domain controller with ADS, DNS
> and DHCP.
>
> the existing workgroup has two ip addresses(one for personnel
> administrative computers and the other for the 4 labs). pls how do i
> move all of these computers to the new server i just set up, using one
> ip address scope?
>
> pls i nid answers and summary procedures asap-
> thank you
>
> my e-mail is (E-Mail Removed)

Hi - I truly hope that you will take no offense at my words, but it sounds
like you might be better off bringing in a consultant to help you out. If
you have to ask a newsgroup how to do this it may be beyond your skill set.
Newsgroups are good places to ask for help with specific issues, but what
you're asking for is really beyond the scope of a newsgroup post, even if
you provided sufficient detail (which you really haven't).

You need to setup all servers and workstations using the same subnet and
join the workstations to the domain.

--
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com


<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:03537c2b-0111-4b47-ad39-(E-Mail Removed)...
> hello all,
>
> pls i nid your help!!!!!! pls my company policy
> suddenly changed and they now want us to change our existing network
> from a workgroup(80 computers in 4 labs connected together by
> swithces) to a domain. i have set up a domain controller with ADS, DNS
> and DHCP.
>
> the existing workgroup has two ip addresses(one for personnel
> administrative computers and the other for the 4 labs). pls how do i
> move all of these computers to the new server i just set up, using one
> ip address scope?
>
> pls i nid answers and summary procedures asap-
> thank you
>
> my e-mail is (E-Mail Removed)
>
>
>
>
>

IP#s have absolutley nothing to do with a Domain.

Join the machine to the Domain.
The users can continue to log in with local Accounts until everything else
pertaining to the Domain is finished.
Lastly the users will thne log in with Domain accounts to create their
profile.
Once their profile is created use the File and Settings Transfer Wizard from
the XP CD to copy the contents of their local user profile to the Domain
profile. Once everything is verified to be correct delete the local profile
and all of the local user account on the workstation except for the "factory
originals".

You have to know what you are doing for all of this. You cannot simply
"wing it" and hope everything works. If you need help call someone who can
physically come to your location.


--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:03537c2b-0111-4b47-ad39-(E-Mail Removed)...
> hello all,
>
> pls i nid your help!!!!!! pls my company policy
> suddenly changed and they now want us to change our existing network
> from a workgroup(80 computers in 4 labs connected together by
> swithces) to a domain. i have set up a domain controller with ADS, DNS
> and DHCP.
>
> the existing workgroup has two ip addresses(one for personnel
> administrative computers and the other for the 4 labs). pls how do i
> move all of these computers to the new server i just set up, using one
> ip address scope?
>
> pls i nid answers and summary procedures asap-
> thank you
>
> my e-mail is (E-Mail Removed)
>
>
>
>
>

They don't have to be on the same subnet.


--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
-----------------------------------------------------

"Robert L. (MS-MVP)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> You need to setup all servers and workstations using the same subnet and
> join the workstations to the domain.
>
> --
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
> http://www.ChicagoTech.net
> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
> http://www.HowToNetworking.com
>
>
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:03537c2b-0111-4b47-ad39-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> hello all,
>>
>> pls i nid your help!!!!!! pls my company policy
>> suddenly changed and they now want us to change our existing network
>> from a workgroup(80 computers in 4 labs connected together by
>> swithces) to a domain. i have set up a domain controller with ADS, DNS
>> and DHCP.
>>
>> the existing workgroup has two ip addresses(one for personnel
>> administrative computers and the other for the 4 labs). pls how do i
>> move all of these computers to the new server i just set up, using one
>> ip address scope?
>>
>> pls i nid answers and summary procedures asap-
>> thank you
>>
>> my e-mail is (E-Mail Removed)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

(E-Mail Removed) a pensé très fort :
> the existing workgroup has two ip addresses(one for personnel
> administrative computers and the other for the 4 labs). pls how do i
> move all of these computers to the new server i just set up, using one
> ip address scope?
>
> pls i nid answers and summary procedures asap-
> thank you

Linux can act as a domain controler

Best of all : It 'is free ;>))

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