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March 01, 1999

Migrating Windows 98 and Win95 Clients


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Main Article    Migrating NT Workstations to a New Domain

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You can use Listing A to migrate Windows 98 and Win95 systems to a new domain. The script accomplishes the migration by modifying a few Registry keys. At callout A, Listing A removes password caching so that the system doesn't use the password for its old domain account when it tries to log on to the new domain or network resources. Next, the script adds the new domain name to the Registry and removes the old domain name from the Registry entries.

At callout B of Listing A, the script runs logoff.exe from within the Registry so that no startup executables can interfere with the migration process. We found that the logoff.exe utility sometimes fails to function because it fails to terminate the command shell from which it executes. If your users have user profiles in Win98 or Win95, you need to modify Listing A so that all users of each system migrate to the new domain.

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Reader Comments
I am trying to use your logon script for Migrating NT and 98 & 95 to a new domain. I am having trouble.
I can not find "regchg.exe" anywhere. Where can I find this utility at? I have look in Windows nt resource kit and other url.
Please help.

Choy Boulom March 22, 2000


Don't even bother looking for this out of date util (regchg.exe). Run Reg update. Anyway the scripts do not work as they havn't been written correctly. You will need to rework them.

Stephen Collopy June 26, 2000


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