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Switching from Local to AD accounts
Hi Everyone, This might be a straightforward question, but I want ot make sure before I proceed. We have a standard Windows Server 2008 R2 environment, a DC running AD, DNS and DHCP. The AD structu...
So, after giving it much thought, I think the best course of action would be:
- Set the permissions for all the shares to Everyone read/write
- Reset File Access for every share
- Backup all user home folders with data on them
- Delete all users and groups. This will effectively leave just the admin account and every share with full access
- Reboot
- Join the NAS to AD and sync user accounts
- Check that everything works
- Restore the files to each home folder (I assume home folders will be re-created for every account on AD)
- Set Sharing permissions from within Windows Explorer
- Cross fingers
I can schedule some dowtime and do all of this during a weekend. If you have any other ideas please share.
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