Domain affiliation fails and the workstation is not rebooted while migrating computers. (NETIQKB72278)

  • 7772278
  • 04-May-2010
  • 16-Nov-2011

Environment

Domain Migration Administrator 7.6
Domain Migration Administrator 8.0

Situation

Domain affiliation fails and the workstation is not rebooted while migrating computers.


DMA fails the migration of VISTA, Windows 7 Server 2008, and Server 2008 R2 computers. The domain affiliation is not changed and the workstation are not rebooted.
Unable to change Domain Affilation

Resolution

To resolve this issue, disable UAC through GPO or manually on each machine being migrated. This issues is scheduled to be addressed in a future release of DMA.

 

Steps to turn off UAC are detailed in the following Microsoft Technet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691(WS.10).aspx

 

Cause

This issue occurs because the DMA agent is not UAC compatible. This will occur on the following operating system platforms:

  • Windows Vista
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows 7

Additional Information

Formerly known as NETIQKB72278