3.2. Using the Active Directory Migration Tool

The primary tool that we use to migrate objects from one domain to another is the Active Directory Migration Tool. As of the writing of this book, the Active Directory Migration Tool version most widely used at the enterprise level is ADMT 3.0. This is the version that is used with Windows Server 2003 and mostly facilitated transfers between Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Windows Server 2003.

With the release of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft introduced the ADMT version 3.1. This powerful, new version of the previous ADMT tool is designed from the ground up to support Windows Server 2008 and all previous versions of Windows Server. Because of the inherent power of this tool and how heavily it will ...

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