Steps to Migrate Objects from One AD to Another

Click on the source domain and navigate to the Active Directory tab. Click on the Fetch Active Directory Objects.

An Active Directory Objects wizard will open, you can select the Objects that you want to fetch from source AD. Enable the required Objects and click on Continue.

You can see that the application has completed objects fetching. Click on Ok.

You can see the complete source Active Directory structure on screen.

Similarly fetch the Destination Active Directory structure. Click in the Domain tab, click on the Destination domain.

Navigate to the Active Directory tab. Click on the Fetch Active Directory Objects.

An Active Directory Objects wizard will open, you can select the Objects that you want to fetch from Destination AD. Enable the required Objects and click on Continue.

You can see that the application has completed objects fetching. Click on Ok.

You can see the complete Destination Active Directory structure on screen.

Now navigate to Migration tab and click on the Create Migration Scenario.

Give a Name to your scenario and Set the Source and Destination Domain. Click on Save & Continue.

Click on your Scenario Name to proceed further in order to create a task. Now in the Task tab, just Click on the Create Task option.

Give your Task a Name & then Select the Objects you want to migrate. Apply the following setting for password:

• No Password Handling: This option will exclude user passwords during the migration process.
• Password Sync: This option will Sync the newly updated password to the destination. (Only works after installing AD Watcher)
• Password Hash: Explicit functionality to import and export existing account passwords.
• Set Default Password: This option will facilitate user migration by defining a default password.

For the instance, we are selecting - Set Default Password option. Click on Save & Continue button.

Now on this screen, you can see all the objects present in the source domain. Click on Three Dots in front of any object to map it to the destination.

Now choose the required objects, here we are choosing computer and users. Select whether you want to Merge the data, or Create a new object. Click on the Select button.

You can see that the objects are mapped to the destination AD domain. Now click on the validate button.

Now, you can switch the view to table view. The validation is successful and you can see the validation status is in green.

Click on the Start Task button at the top to begin the migration task. Click on the Start button on the prompt screen too.

Here, you can see that the migration status is initiated. Just wait sometime to let the process get complete .

After sometime, you can see that the status is showing completed. Click on the button to see the details of Objects, that are migrated.

Navigate to the Reports tab to generate reports on the migration operation. You can generate two types of report on the basis of domain wise report and migration wise report.

Within the Domain-wise report, there are multiple options. First is the Summary report, which contains an overview of the total items exported and imported.

The “Migrated to" option gives a report that highlights the count of items put in the destination domain.

Select “Migrated from" when you wish to get a report that contains the number of items pulled from the source domain.

The second tab in the Reports screen is for Migration-wise reports. If you want to get the report of any previous migration or the most recent migration in a Task-wise manner. Come to this tab.

Once report selection is finalized, Click on Download Report button to get a copy of the report.