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Project Summary
One of the largest home improvement organizations in the
United States was challenged with migrating over 10,000 user
workstations from Novell NetWare and NDS to Windows 2003 and
Active Directory. Users were spread across 1,800 store
locations, 20 corporate locations, and several distribution
centers. Management mandated minimal end user disruption and
migration costs along with a very tight timeline.
InfraScience was challenged with putting together the proper
solution with an understanding that:
1) Many end users worked from home and had never worked out
of a corporate office.
2) Most remote locations did not have local IT support staff
to assist with the migration.
3) End user workstation builds were inconsistent with
regards to services, operating system versions, and
applications.
Solution
InfraScience, a Microsoft Gold Partner, presented and
implemented a two-fold solution that proved to be
successful.
The first solution utilized ForensiT’s Profile Wizard
wrapped with extensive scripting. This solution targeted
users in corporate locations and was pushed to end user
workstations via NetWare login scripts. The solution
considered different operating systems, domain and workgroup
membership, permissions, password encryption, end user
communication, the possibility for the migration process to
be interrupted, automatic reboots, and detailed logging.
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The second solution utilized the same technology, but the
method of deployment changed. This solution targeted road
warriors and remote access users. InfraScience created an
automated menu driven CD to be shipped to each location.
This CD included simple step-by-step instructions that
allowed the user to run ForensiT’s Profile Wizard with a
simple click of a button. With a reboot, the end user’s
workstation became part of Active Directory and the new
environment.
Final Thoughts
InfraScience’s creativity and thorough understanding of the
environment coupled with ForensiT’s Profile Wizard saved the
company thousands of dollars. The end user community enjoyed
minimal outage during the project. Without the use of
ForensiT’s Profile Wizard, the project would have been very
intrusive and costly.
For more information on InfraScience and its solutions,
please go to
www.infrascience.com.
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