CA tool aids Windows 2000 migration
 
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Ready to plan your migration to Windows 2000, but you don't know where to start? Computer Associates has a free tool that could help.
Of course, CA isn't being altruistic. Once you see the Gantt chart their Migration Project Planner develops, they hope you'll also purchase tools and services to help bring the plan to fruition.
CA's tool will give you a very detailed plan. As an example, I asked the service to plan a migration of one Domain Controller, two other servers and 10 clients. The resulting plan indicated I'd need 25 days and at least three people to successfully migrate with little or no downtime for the network. Extrapolate those results for your network and you'll see why my mantra has always been "plan, plan, plan."
The CA chart is done from the perspective of a consultant, however, you could take that role should you decide to do it all yourself. But the steps involved may be a challenge. CA presents a timeline for the following tasks, based on the information you input:
- Evaluate Win 2000 features.
- Evaluate corporate business objectives.
- Determine technology goals and objectives.
- Prepare and conduct vision presentation.
- Discover environment.
- Establish hierarchy of domain trusts.
- Assess resource domains.
- Model the environment using WorldView.
- Identify Windows NT user definitions for export.
- Identify compliance and criticality issues.
- Identify future plans.
- Conduct business interviews.
- Determine clients' standard operating environment.
- Detail information architecture/flow.
- Detail application requirements.
- Detail current information technology standards.
- Document current computing environment.
- Obtain client approval of base architecture.
- Detail future business organizational structure.
- Detail future geographic considerations.
- Detail future key business processes.
- Determine clients' future standard operating systems.
- Detail future information architecture/flow.
- Detail future application requirements.
- Detail future information technology standards.
- Document future computing environment.
- Determine migration road map.
- Determine upgrade/replacement methodology.
- Develop recovery plan.
- Map vision/scope to current computing environment.
- Create SOE for migrated servers.
- Determine client migration responsibilities.
- Determine business and IT impact of migration.
- Create transition plan.
- Determine noncompliant upgrade path.
- Create hardware/software procurement plan.
- Obtain client approval of hardware/software.
- Review transition strategy with client.
- Prepare and conduct transition presentation.
- Secure executive sponsorship/funding.
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