About Windows-to-Mac Migration Script Tool

The Windows-to-Mac® migration scripted tool provides a simple framework to begin the process of moving Windows user profile files (e.g. documents, movies, photos, music files, iTunes® settings, IE favorites (links), etc.) from a Windows environment to an Apple® Mac. The concept is to capture the majority of the files that a user in a Windows environment uses and move them to their Apple machine. The user items that will be migrated are dependent on the version of Windows that they are running. The Symantec Management Platform is leveraged to run tasks on the Windows computers that need to be targeted. The scripts determine via a data file located on a file share which Apple computer to target for the data. This simplifies the migration of many computers and allows a simple “mass” migration path as needed. Further, once the framework has been put in place the entire process can be...

 This is a pretty fascinating post I read on Mark Russinovich's blog about SID duplication. Check it out if you haven't already.

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx


At first I was like “whatever he’s lying because I know I’ve seen issues first-hand when a computer is imaged without Sysprep and there are all sorts of issues." However, as Mark notes, one shouldn’t confused the machine SID with the computer Domain SID… so it makes sense in the end.

A customer of mine implemented R12 (AKB #46763 [1]) in production after diligently testing the roll-up in test and pre-production environment.

However a couple of server (one in production, one in pre-production) completed the install but where left in a non working state due to the following error documented in the release notes [2]:

This is a very cool tool to configure the MS core server by a GUI. I know, this sounds strange, but it makes it pretty fast to use core servers for everyone not too familiar  with PowerShell etc.
It is freeware and published under the Microsoft Public License (MS PL).
On the website you'll also find a version for 2008 R1, as this one here is ONLY working with R2.
On the website you'll find the download as .iso (for direct mounting in VMs) and as .exe for use with physical machines.

Here's the website: http://coreconfig.codeplex.com/

Hope, this helps you to use the Cores!

All the best,
Oliver