How do I enable disabled accounts that were originally created by ADC? (NETIQKB9537)

  • 7709537
  • 02-Feb-2007
  • 08-Aug-2007

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How do I enable disabled accounts that were originally created by ADC?

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Domain Migration Administrator 6.x

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Domain Migration Administrator 7.x

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Exchange Migrator 1.x

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Exchange Migrator 2.x

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The Microsoft recommended practice for enabling an ADC created account is to enable the account and clear the msExchMasterAccountSid property. Please refer to the following Microsoft article regarding this process.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q316047

Alternatively, you can use the Update Active Directory Connector Accounts wizard in the Domain Migration Administrator to enable the account and clean up the ADC information after migration with Domain Migration Administrator (DMA) or Exchange Migrator.  For more information about the Update Active Directory Connector Accounts wizard, please refer to the following knowledge base articles:



note

Please note that with the release of the Microsoft ADC that ships with Exchange 2003, when ADC creates an Active Directory account for the first time the samAccountName is in the format ADC_xxxxxxxx (where the xxxxxx are randomly generated characters). This can be handled during the domain migration phase in a couple of different ways:



Additional Information

Formerly known as NETIQKB9537