The variables $compacc and $fqdn come from the main part of the script as parameters when calling the function. While the final script contains multiple functions, the core function with the add-computer commandlet to disjoin/join the Computer can be found here:įunction domain_move ( $compacc, $fqdn ) The script server periodically scans the share for new config files and processes the server names. Server owners would place a config file on a share. (We ended up with a 320 line script to combine multiple modifications during server move).
To be as most flexible as can be, we chose the add-computer Powershell commandlet for our scripting solution. Another requirement was to leave the servers as is without installing QMM agents that could interfere with running applications. While we would operate and maintain the service centrally, the server admins should decide which servers to migrate and when to migrate them.
To ease the one time task of domain migration for those administrators, our idea was to implement a remote service utility which can migrate servers to the new domain in bulk mode. Some of the server admins are responsible for large scale test and development environments with hundreds of servers. While the client computers run through an SCCM controlled imaging process, the server domain move is the task of the server admins. In our actual large scale migration project we have to deal with multiple thousands servers that have to be migrated to the new domain. However, this is not a solution for migration projects where you want to move many computers at the same time remotely logging on to the machines interactively. The most simple way to move a computer between domains is of course to use the GUI and change the domain or workgroup association of the computer in the system property settings manually. And in addition you have to disjoin the Windows computer from the old domain and join it to the new domain which requires to modify the workstation or server OS. There is an Active Directory object migration as it is with user and group objects. Migrating computers as part of an Active Directory migration has 2 aspects.
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