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GrZeCh
Asked: 2011-08-14 23:31:33 +0800 CST

Synchronizing users between two identical Windows 2008 R2 instances (second one is XenConvert clone)

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I'm running IIS 7 server where users are using dedicated application pools so I need for all of them separate users. I'm moving my environment to XenServer and I'm using for this XenConvert tool. Everything is fine except that I need to synchronize Windows local users between this two Windows instances. I don't have problems with files and their permissions since I use for it robocopy.

Any idea how to just copy users between this two Windows systems?

Regards

EDIT: users are local.

synchronization user-accounts windows-server-2008-r2

2 Answers

  1. The question is not clear if these servers are domain joined or not but I'm going to guess they aren't. Microsoft has a tool to copy users between boxes but it can't copy the password.

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;250267

    You may need to just recreate the accounts on the new server and reconfigure the application pools.

    EDIT: Windows Server Migration Tools should work. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd379531(WS.10).aspx

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd379545(WS.10).aspx#BKMK_full

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  2. Best Answer

    It looks like this software solved my problems:

    http://www.winzero.ca/ServerMigrator.html

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