How do I decommission a NT domain?

I'm one of the administrators of a very big environment, with about 4000
servers.
Although we have one Windows Server 2003 domain running at the Windows
Server 2003 forest functional level, we still have dozens of Windows NT 4.0
resource domains. All of them have trust relationships aming them.
I'm working to write a checklist that will be used before the
decommissioning process of those legacy domains, to make sure that it will
be as smooth as possible.
How can I determine if the domain controllers are still being queried for
authentication requests?

Thanks,

Felipe

google for logonserver
(if not google already knows everything about your network ;-))

Sorry, but logonserver is not so unique to give me the good results.
Can you be more especific, please?

Thanks,

Felipe


"Juergen Kluth" <jkluth-> wrote in message
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> google for logonserver
> (if not google already knows everything about your network ;-))
>

I figured it out: http://www.heysoft.de/nt/reg/ep-regd.htm

Regards,

Felipe


"Carlos Felipe França da Fonseca" <> wrote in
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> I'm one of the administrators of a very big environment, with about 4000
> servers.
> Although we have one Windows Server 2003 domain running at the Windows
> Server 2003 forest functional level, we still have dozens of Windows NT
> 4.0 resource domains. All of them have trust relationships aming them.
> I'm working to write a checklist that will be used before the
> decommissioning process of those legacy domains, to make sure that it will
> be as smooth as possible.
> How can I determine if the domain controllers are still being queried for
> authentication requests?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Felipe
>

Wrongly posted.

"Carlos Felipe França da Fonseca" <> wrote in
message news:%23eptG9N$...
>I figured it out: http://www.heysoft.de/nt/reg/ep-regd.htm
>
> Regards,
>
> Felipe
>
>
> "Carlos Felipe França da Fonseca" <> wrote in
> message news:u38rWaM$...
>> I'm one of the administrators of a very big environment, with about 4000
>> servers.
>> Although we have one Windows Server 2003 domain running at the Windows
>> Server 2003 forest functional level, we still have dozens of Windows NT
>> 4.0 resource domains. All of them have trust relationships aming them.
>> I'm working to write a checklist that will be used before the
>> decommissioning process of those legacy domains, to make sure that it
>> will be as smooth as possible.
>> How can I determine if the domain controllers are still being queried for
>> authentication requests?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Felipe
>>
>
>

Hello Carlos Felipe França da Fonseca,

If in this domains are clients logging on they ofcourse have to use the domain
servers for logging on. A trust with another domain will not prevent the
domain logon where the clients belong to. Or did i understand you totally
wrong.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> I'm one of the administrators of a very big environment, with about
> 4000
> servers.
> Although we have one Windows Server 2003 domain running at the Windows
> Server 2003 forest functional level, we still have dozens of Windows
> NT 4.0
> resource domains. All of them have trust relationships aming them.
> I'm working to write a checklist that will be used before the
> decommissioning process of those legacy domains, to make sure that it
> will
> be as smooth as possible.
> How can I determine if the domain controllers are still being queried
> for
> authentication requests?
> Thanks,
>
> Felipe
>

Hi Meinolf,

Thanks for your reply. But I think I was not clear enough.
I mentioned about the trust relashionships because there are many servers in
different domains which use service accounts of other domains. For example,
we can have hundreds of servers in different domains configured to start
services using accounts from domain XPTO. If I decommission domain XPTO,
I'll be in a deep trouble: all those services won't start on those servers
from different domains.

Is it clear enough now?

So, I'm trying to avoid possible disruptions.

Thank you again,

Felipe

<Meinolf Weber> wrote in message
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> Hello Carlos Felipe França da Fonseca,
>
> If in this domains are clients logging on they ofcourse have to use the
> domain servers for logging on. A trust with another domain will not
> prevent the domain logon where the clients belong to. Or did i understand
> you totally wrong.
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>
>> I'm one of the administrators of a very big environment, with about
>> 4000
>> servers.
>> Although we have one Windows Server 2003 domain running at the Windows
>> Server 2003 forest functional level, we still have dozens of Windows
>> NT 4.0
>> resource domains. All of them have trust relationships aming them.
>> I'm working to write a checklist that will be used before the
>> decommissioning process of those legacy domains, to make sure that it
>> will
>> be as smooth as possible.
>> How can I determine if the domain controllers are still being queried
>> for
>> authentication requests?
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Felipe
>>
>
>

Hello Carlos Felipe França da Fonseca,

What about finding all service accounts to change them?

Here are some script examples:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...4/hey0910.mspx

ftp://falcon.msetechnology.com/scripts/svclist.cmd.txt

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Hi Meinolf,
>
> Thanks for your reply. But I think I was not clear enough.
> I mentioned about the trust relashionships because there are many
> servers in
> different domains which use service accounts of other domains. For
> example,
> we can have hundreds of servers in different domains configured to
> start
> services using accounts from domain XPTO. If I decommission domain
> XPTO,
> I'll be in a deep trouble: all those services won't start on those
> servers
> from different domains.
> Is it clear enough now?
>
> So, I'm trying to avoid possible disruptions.
>
> Thank you again,
>
> Felipe
>
> <Meinolf Weber> wrote in message
> news: .com...
>
>> Hello Carlos Felipe França da Fonseca,
>>
>> If in this domains are clients logging on they ofcourse have to use
>> the domain servers for logging on. A trust with another domain will
>> not prevent the domain logon where the clients belong to. Or did i
>> understand you totally wrong.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Meinolf Weber
>> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
>> confers no rights.
>> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
>> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>>> I'm one of the administrators of a very big environment, with about
>>> 4000
>>> servers.
>>> Although we have one Windows Server 2003 domain running at the
>>> Windows
>>> Server 2003 forest functional level, we still have dozens of Windows
>>> NT 4.0
>>> resource domains. All of them have trust relationships aming them.
>>> I'm working to write a checklist that will be used before the
>>> decommissioning process of those legacy domains, to make sure that
>>> it
>>> will
>>> be as smooth as possible.
>>> How can I determine if the domain controllers are still being
>>> queried
>>> for
>>> authentication requests?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Felipe
>>>

Thanks again, Meinolf.

If I don't find a way to count authentication requests (in System Monitor,
for example), I'll follow your recommendation. The problem is that we have
about 4000 servers spread over 40 domains.
That will be really painful.

Regards,

Felipe


"Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Hello Carlos Felipe França da Fonseca,
>
> What about finding all service accounts to change them?
> Here are some script examples:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...4/hey0910.mspx
>
> ftp://falcon.msetechnology.com/scripts/svclist.cmd.txt
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>
>> Hi Meinolf,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply. But I think I was not clear enough.
>> I mentioned about the trust relashionships because there are many
>> servers in
>> different domains which use service accounts of other domains. For
>> example,
>> we can have hundreds of servers in different domains configured to
>> start
>> services using accounts from domain XPTO. If I decommission domain
>> XPTO,
>> I'll be in a deep trouble: all those services won't start on those
>> servers
>> from different domains.
>> Is it clear enough now?
>>
>> So, I'm trying to avoid possible disruptions.
>>
>> Thank you again,
>>
>> Felipe
>>
>> <Meinolf Weber> wrote in message
>> news: .com...
>>
>>> Hello Carlos Felipe França da Fonseca,
>>>
>>> If in this domains are clients logging on they ofcourse have to use
>>> the domain servers for logging on. A trust with another domain will
>>> not prevent the domain logon where the clients belong to. Or did i
>>> understand you totally wrong.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Meinolf Weber
>>> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
>>> confers no rights.
>>> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
>>> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>>>> I'm one of the administrators of a very big environment, with about
>>>> 4000
>>>> servers.
>>>> Although we have one Windows Server 2003 domain running at the
>>>> Windows
>>>> Server 2003 forest functional level, we still have dozens of Windows
>>>> NT 4.0
>>>> resource domains. All of them have trust relationships aming them.
>>>> I'm working to write a checklist that will be used before the
>>>> decommissioning process of those legacy domains, to make sure that
>>>> it
>>>> will
>>>> be as smooth as possible.
>>>> How can I determine if the domain controllers are still being
>>>> queried
>>>> for
>>>> authentication requests?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Felipe
>>>>
>
>