Hi all,
We’re moving to a new domain by the end of the year and I have a couple of 3 tier farms to migrate. Most posts talk about building new farms in the destination domain and then moving the databases and updating user accounts. I found the article (below) and was wondering if there’s a reason why I couldn’t use the same strategies for a moving a multi-server farm.
Rob,
Would you be kind to share your steps with me, please? I have to migrate our current multi-server SharePoint 2013 servers to a new domain. The users already exist in the new domain.
Thanks
Nee
In the past when moving domains, we have had a requirement that meant we couldn’t keep the old Windows Image – the new domain belonged to a new company and servers of existing company couldn’t be added for non-technical reasons.
Is it imply a case of domain rename for you?
Migrating users was complicated because of Claims, the usual PowerShell Move-SPUser kept failing when using the standard format for a userID i.e Domain\User. In the end I had to pull out the user as a Claim string and then it would work.
$user = Get-SPUser -Identity “i:0#.w|olddomain\user” -Web https://sharepointsite.com
Move-SPUser -Identity $user -NewAlias “i:0#.w|domainuser\user” -Ignoresid -Confirm:$false
You can use a CSV to list the users if you have a lot of users to migrate.
You can also move AD security groups in much the same way. There is a great blog on how to do this here – http://www.sharepointfire.com/2013/11/migrating-ad-groups-in-sharepoint-2013/
Moving Sharepoint 2013 from one domain to another: https://www.gittprogram.com/question/73215_moving-sharepoint-2013-from-one-domain-to-another.html
You can also check the following articles for the same: http://justgeeks.blogspot.in/2007/09/moving-sharepoint-to-new-active.html
Hope this helps!
Hi Rob, thank you for your reply. It’s not so much that it’s more difficult to rebuild. It’s that I’m tight for storage and I’m not sure I’ll have enough to have two sets of both farms online. Yes, testing is going to be the determining factor here. I do have a single server 2013 dev. farm to try first.
What did you do for migrating the users? Our users are going to already exist in the new domain with new accounts. I’m going to have to come up with a solution that coverts old user names to the new user names.
