How do I migrate from OpenLDAP to Active Directory?

hi everybody,

currently we are running samba and openldap as our PDC. our ultimate goal is to migrate completely over to windows active directory. how would i go about doing this?

From serverfault Roger

• Generally speaking this can be treated the same as adding/migrating to any other DC:

  1. Join two Windows servers to the domain.
  2. Make the windows servers into backup DCs.
     1. See the Windows documentation & any notes your admin team has on this process
  3. Make the OpenLDAP PDC go away (Again refer to notes/docs, but you want to unplug it, then disjoin it)
     1. Universe still working? If so, continue. Otherwise Find out why & fix it.
        1. Can't fix it? Revert back to the OpenLDAP PDC until you can!
  4. Promote one of the Windows boxen to be PDC (not sure if this is still necessary or not these days?)
     1. Universe still working? If so you're done. If not, fix it
        1. (You shouldn't ever get to 4.1 :)
  mfinni : I worry that you're using PDC and BDC as operational terms when we're talking about AD domains.
  From voretaq7