Question

I am faced with a problem of having to link a current setup of WSS 3.0 (SharePoint) to a newly built Active Directory and do not want to have to re-link all my users back into People and Groups on the SharePoint installation.

I have the following setup:
Server 1 – SBS2003 Server running Active Directory and Exchange
Server 2 – SQL Server running SQL server 2005
Server 3 – WSS 3 / SharePoint Web Front End Server

I need to replace Server 1 and it will be replaced with an SBS2008 (64-bit) server to run Active Directory and Exchange (This will be, for example, Server 4).

My setup of SharePoint (which is across server 2 and server 3) will need to use the new Active Directory on the new Server 4.

Is there a way I can link my current WSS 3.0 setup to the new (rebuilt) Active Directory without having to remove and re-add all my users into People and Groups in SharePoint and therefore saving me from having to update all my people fields within my site with new ones so my dynamic list filters (using the ‘[Me]’ function) will work properly?

I hope this makes sense and any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this command:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262141%28office.12%29.aspx

stsadm -o migrateuser

   -oldlogin <domain\name>

   -newlogin <domain\name>

   [-ignoresidhistory]