Ever Server R2 is a possibility. Are there any good resources that describes how to migrate a Netware file storage to a Windows Server environment. My first impression is that it's not as flexible as Netware volumes, but it's probably more that it's just different from Netware.
Any information on this topic would be appreciated. Here's the Microsoft planning guide from Netware to Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Companies that have built their application infrastructures around NDS and are using Novell's ZENworks for desktop management and GroupWise for messaging aren't likely to budge. Companies Computerworld spoke with about migrating to Windows were either using older versions of NetWare as far back as NetWare 3. Older versions use Novell's proprietary IPX transport protocol.
Moving to a pure, native Internet Protocol environment requires a significant migration effort. The company still has about 23 NetWare 4. In order to move to a pure IP environment and solve some persistent problems with its Asynchronous Transfer Mode network backbone, the company needed to either upgrade to NetWare 5 or move off NetWare entirely. Most NetWare users -- even those preparing to abandon the platform -- say NetWare is stable and reliable. Novell has had six years to work out the kinks, and they have.
There is ZENworks, so you don't need as many third-party tools. There are more experienced administrators. The problem is that Microsoft's market dominance and Novell's perceived problems are eroding support for NetWare. NetWare "was incredibly stable," he says, adding that he has to reboot his NT servers once per week.
Still, Brown says he has no regrets, because "the increased functionality is incredible. Wells Fargo has 20, to 25, user accounts in NDS -- out of approximately , total employees. It also had a Windows NT 4. However, Wells Fargo had an added incentive to choose Active Directory: The bank had been invited by Microsoft to participate in the Joint Development Program, which gave it the ability to closely follow and influence the development of Windows Each of Wells Fargo's lines of business has its own funding and IT plans.
His nine-person team is responsible for running the agency's Microsoft Exchange e-mail system and its new Active Directory service. If you're moving away from NetWare, there's no reason to even have a NetWare-based computer object in the directory. Rather than migrating the computer object in such a case, you'd remove the NetWare requestor from the workstation and replace it with a Windows client. After doing so, you'd join the computer to the new domain, which would automatically create a new computer account within the Active Directory.
I should mention that third-party utilities are available that will migrate all of the objects automatically. Another issue that you need to be aware of is that when you use MSDSS to automatically migrate objects, the objects might not be placed where you'd expect them to go within the Active Directory. The differences in the way that the directories are organized account for the weird way that MSDSS puts migrated objects into the Active Directory.
The reason is that doing so allows you to retain your previous directory structure. You'll be instantly familiar with the directory layout. As you'd probably expect, NDS user and group objects are converted to Active Directory users and groups.
But the similarities end there. NetWare has an object type called a container. Another discrepancy between the two directory structures is that NetWare uses a directory object called an organization , which does not have an Active Directory equivalent.
There's more to a network operating system migration than simply migrating directory service objects. You'll also have to migrate users' files and folders and the corresponding permissions. This means that each file has a specific list of users that are allowed access. If you were to migrate your users from NDS to Active Directory, however, the permissions that are assigned to the files would cease to be valid because they reference NDS objects that no longer exist.
Therefore, you'll have to perform a procedure to re-establish the proper security related to each file. For the purposes of this article, I'll assume that the files being migrated reside on a NetWare server and need to be physically moved in addition to having their permissions reset.
In case you're wondering, both utilities are included in the Services For NetWare. Before you attempt to migrate any files, there are a couple of prerequisites that your Windows server must meet. Unless an MSDSS migration has been completed, all permissions to the various files and folders will be lost and will have to be manually rebuilt. The process of migrating files and folders is extremely simple compared to the process of migrating directory objects. This time, though, you'll select the Migrate Files check box.
Next, you'll use the File Migration Utility to actually migrate the files. You have the option of migrating the files all at once or of migrating files in batches.
The migration process is pretty simple. The file structure is copied to the destination server in exactly the same way that it resided on the source server.
One notable exception is that the NetWare file system makes use of a permission called Modify, for which there is no Windows equivalent. As a part of the migration process, anyone who has modify permissions to a file on a NetWare server will have read permissions to the file once it has been migrated. Above, I said that the files are copied to the Windows Server in exactly the same way that they existed on the NetWare server in order to preserve the directory hierarchy. While this statement is absolutely true, you do have other options.
The File Migration Utility gives you the option of mapping specific directories to specific Windows shares.
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