Question

I need to migrate our SharePoint farm to a new domain. Until everything is moved we have full trust set up between the domains.

Farm Hardware

One WFE/Index Server

Two SQL DB Servers (clustered)

I know how to do this using all new hardware from production to a dev environment but doing an in place migration seems more daunting. To take some of the pressure off we have a new beefy SharePoint box to install to that will be a fresh box on the new domain but we don’t have enough hardware to have a separate SQL cluster.

I am told that all the boxes should be on the same domain so now the hard part is to bring the SQL box on the new domain. Can I just switch domains on the SQL DB cluster and then install SP on the new WFE?

Answer 1

Voted to move to serverfault, but here’s my 2 cents. Moving SQL Server 2 a new domain is easy, sql server will pick up any changes. The problem is sharepoint. SharePoint users to be exact.
Any documents in your site(s) will have it’s created by / modified by broken, because even though the same users exist in the new domain, the bindings will be incorrect, sharepoint expects for instance user [e-mail], which is very different from user [e-mail]. There is a way around this using httpmodules etc, but it is a pain in the ass.

Check out the result when googling migrate sharepoint new domain.