Authentication Wizard - Domain Change and Profile Migration

Alter-Ego supports many authentication styles to provide flexibility for all manor of domain configurations. The Authentication Wizard is used to efficiently configure the various authentication roles required for any migration.

In Domain Change and Profile Migration mode, the Authentication Wizard sets the accounts required for a migration in which profiles are moved between one user and another while computers also change domain membership -- from workgroup to domain or vice-versa. All other settings should be configured using the Easy Setup Wizard.

The three types of domain change and profile migrations are:

• Domain User -> Domain User: Choose this option if source and destination profiles both belong to domain users. i.e. use this option if you are migrating user profiles which belong to users in Domain A to users in Domain B or changing the profile of one user in Domain A to another user in Domain A.
• Domain User -> Local User: Choose this option if source profiles belong to domain users and destination profiles belong to local users. e.g. use this option to move profiles from a domain to a workgroup.
• Local User -> Domain User: Choose this option if source profiles belong to local users and destination profiles belong to domain users. e.g. use this option to move profiles from a workgroup to a domain.

Alter-Ego does not support Local User -> Local User profile migrations in conjunction with a domain change. If you require this very rare migration scenario, you can run separate Domain Change and Profile Migration jobs.

Due to the numerous possible authentication scenarios, each one is covered in its own Step-by-Step guide. Please select your scenario from the options below:

• Choose the Basic Domain Migration scenario if:
  • You are migrating profiles from one Domain User to another Domain User in different domains.
  • You are migrating workstations from one domain to another.
  • Source user and computer accounts are in the same domain.
  • Destination user and computer accounts are in the same domain.
  • Authentication will be done with Domain Admin accounts that have local administrative access to all computers in their respective domains.
  
  
• Choose the Local Admin-Authenticated Domain Migration scenario if:
  • You are migrating profiles from one Domain User to another Domain User in different domains.
  • You are migrating workstations from one domain to another.
  • Source user and computer accounts are in the same domain.
  • Destination user and computer accounts are in the same domain.
  • Authentication will be done with a local account that has administrative access to all computers.
  
  
• Choose the One Source to Two Destination Domain Migration scenario if:
  • You are migrating profiles from one Domain User to another Domain User in different domains.
  • You are migrating workstations from one domain to another.
  • Source user and computer accounts are in the same domain.
  • Destination user and computer accounts are in different domains.
  • Authentication will be done with Domain Admin accounts that have local administrative access to all computers in their respective domains.
  
  
• Choose the One Source to Two Destination Local Admin-Authenticated Domain Migration scenario if:
  • You are migrating profiles from one Domain User to another Domain User in different domains.
  • You are migrating workstations from one domain to another.
  • Source user and computer accounts are in the same domain.
  • Destination user and computer accounts are in different domain.
  • Authentication will be done with a local account that has administrative access to all computers.
  
  
• Choose the Two Source to One Destination Domain Migration scenario if:
  • You are migrating profiles from one Domain User to another Domain User in different domains.
  • You are migrating workstations from one domain to another.
  • Source user and computer accounts are in different domains.
  • Destination user and computer accounts are in the same domain.
  • Authentication will be done with Domain Admin accounts that have local administrative access to all computers in their respective domains.
  
  
• Choose the Two Source to One Destination Local Admin-Authenticated Domain Migration scenario if:
  • You are migrating profiles from one Domain User to another Domain User in different domains.
  • You are migrating workstations from one domain to another.
  • Source user and computer accounts are in different domains.
  • Destination user and computer accounts are in the same domain.
  • Authentication will be done with a local account that has administrative access to all computers.
  
  
• Choose the Two Source to Two Destination Domain Migration scenario if:
  • You are migrating profiles from one Domain User to another Domain User in different domains.
  • You are migrating workstations from one domain to another.
  • Source user and computer accounts are in different domains.
  • Destination user and computer accounts are in different domains.
  • Authentication will be done with Domain Admin accounts that have local administrative access to all computers in their respective domains.
  
  
• Choose the Two Source to Two Destination Local Admin-Authenticated Domain Migration scenario if:
  • You are migrating profiles from one Domain User to another Domain User in different domains.
  • You are migrating workstations from one domain to another.
  • Source user and computer accounts are in different domains.
  • Destination user and computer accounts are in different domains.
  • Authentication will be done with a local account that has administrative access to all computers.
  
  
• Choose the Basic Domain-to-Local Domain Migration scenario if:
  • You are migrating profiles from Domain Users to local user accounts on the workstations.
  • You are migrating workstations from domain-to-workgroup.
  • Source user and computer accounts are in the same domain.
  • Authentication will be done with a local account that has administrative access to all computers.
  
  
• Choose the Basic Local-to-Domain Domain Migration scenario if:
  • You are migrating profiles from local user accounts to Domain Users.
  • You are migrating workstations from workgroup-to-domain.
  • Destination user and computer accounts are in the same domain.
  • Authentication will be done with a local account that has administrative access to all computers.
  
  
• Choose the Basic Local-to-Resource Domain Migration scenario if:
  • You are migrating profiles from local user accounts to Domain Users.
  • You are migrating workstations from workgroup-to-domain.
  • Destination user and computer accounts are in different domain.
  • Authentication will be done with a local account that has administrative access to all computers.