Moving to “E-mail” based login is all the rage. Recently a large customer wanted to use the E-Mail as the login. A new User Principal Name (UPN) suffix was created so a UPN suffix that did not match the domain
How well does cross domain authentication work across a Trust? If you have a Forest trust, pretty good. Just make sure you have your UPN routing setup on the trust configuration. And across a domain trust? Not so well, and
You have a Directory or E-Mail migrations to do? Who should you trust as your vendor? Coherence has been doing full time e-mail and directory migrations since 2004. That pretty much all we do. And we do it quite well.
Recently I was asked by a collegiate what a customer could do to prep for an Active Directory migration. I did a quick “off the top of my head” writeup and thought I would share it here for others.
When performing an Active Directory migration one of the often unexpected pitfalls is handling workstation migrations that are only connected via a VPN connection – they never come to an office, ever. What is the problem? When you
Active Directory Migrations require managing entropy and chaos until you are done, at which point, hopefully, you have essentially the same services you started with. It is work that, at best, you can get through without anyone noticing.