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.
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/
