Quest® NDS Migrator
Version 4.3
Release Notes
February, 2008
Resolved Issues and Enhancements
The design of Quest NDS Migrator takes into account that most NDS to AD migrations do not occur as one massive copying of objects. The concept of projects is implemented to allow object migration activities to be broken down into a manageable size of object groupings.
Quest NDS Migrator tracks the groupings of objects that were copied by each project to identify which migrations occurred and when they occurred.
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Functionality |
Supported On |
| Installation | Installation of Quest NDS Migrator on either Windows 2008 Server or Wndows Vista is not supported. |
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Migration target |
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| Workstation Updater |
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| Link Updater and Shortcut Updater |
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The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in this release of Quest NDS Migrator.
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Feature |
Resolved Issue |
Defect ID |
| Attribute Mapping | Internet email addresses are no longer mapped by default. |
TF#18458 |
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Object name |
Size limit for path lengths increased to 450 characters. |
TF#35595 |
| Macintosh migrations | ||
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Macintosh folders with names that include special characters like \ / * ? " < >
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Note: This issue will still persist for salvaged Macintosh folders with special Macintosh characters. To work around this Netware limitation, one needs to use a Macintosh client to rename the salvaged Macintosh folder and then rename it back again once migration is complete. |
CR#192323 | |
| Macintosh folder icons and color are now migrated correctly. | CR#196788 | |
| File and folder migrations |
During file and folder migration, the wrong file permissions could be applied to
the target if the NDS TrusteeID is not unique.
This problem has been corrected. |
CR#203373 |
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File synchronization fails to delete read-only files on the target. This has
been corrected. Note: if the logged-in user does not have access to clear the file's read-only attribute then an Access Denied error will be logged. |
CR#204414 | |
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The "Failed converting SID 0 from ..." error is logged during file migration for
each file or folder that has no owner. Errors are no longer logged against a file or folder that has no owner. |
CR#205602 | |
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The error "Cannot allocate a temporary directory handle" may be reported when
copying files from multiple NDS Servers.
This problem has been corrected. |
CR#209574 | |
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"NWDSReadObjectDSIInfo failed for [Supervisor]" error is logged during file
migration for each file and folder with the [Supervisor] owner. This problem has been corrected. |
CR#210061 | |
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Inherited permissions do not get applied from folders above the mapped object. This problem has been corrected. |
CR#224299 | |
| User and group migrations |
Synchronizing group membership may fail unexpectedly while processing large
amount of groups. This problem has been corrected. |
CR#212132 |
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CPEGs become unnested after a resync. This problem has been corrected. |
CR#213251 | |
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Group synchronization might fail unexpectedly when the Domain Controllers are
not in sync. This problem has been corrected. |
CR#226737 | |
| Workstation Updater |
Workstation Updater may fail to get a SID value for an AD object. This problem has been corrected. |
CR#202704 |
| Link Updater and ShortcutUpdater |
LinkUpdater and ShortcutUpdater limitations (10KB .INI file size and 500
mappings)
The .INI file size limit as been increased to 1MB and the number of mappings to 1000. |
CR#205631 |
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LinkUpdater may unexpectedly terminate when running on a multi-processor
computer. This problem has been corrected. |
CR#212413 | |
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Link Updater crashes or silently exits when it encounters a folder with a path
that is 255 characters or longer. This problem has been corrected. |
CR#214274 | |
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Link Updater silently exits when processing documents with more than 5000 links. This problem has been corrected. |
CR#218218 |
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this Quest NDS Migrator release.
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Feature |
Known Issue |
Defect ID |
| Installation |
If you install Quest NDS Migrator in a domain that has multiple domain controllers, the group NDSMigratorUsers might be created on the secondary DC. Should this happen, you will receive an error message stating that the NDSMigratorUsers group cannot be found. WORKAROUND: Force replication using native Windows tools and install the database again by running the DBInstaller found in the Quest NDS Migrator install directory. |
TF#37987 |
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General Issues |
The Import mapping functionality fails to detect whether a machine is in Native mode; therefore, it will not allow you to create Universal Security groups. |
TF#37988 |
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Issue with re-distributables option in Autorun. SQL Server
Desktop Engine fails to open on Windows 2003. This is a known issue with
Microsoft. You can apply Service Pack 3 only to the instances of the Desktop
Engine installed by Sqlrun01.msi. For more information about this known issue,
refer to:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us; |
TF#37989 |
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Object Migrations |
Unable to evaluate boolean value of source attribute "Password Allow Change" errors will occur during object migrations to a domain controlled by a non-English domain controller. | TF#37829 |
| Quest NDS Migrator will not display NDS objects starting with < or >. | TF#19424 | |
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Certain extended ASCII characters will map to common characters. This causes name duplications which result in the failure to migrate some objects. For example, the names Mellor and Méllor will be considered the same name by Active Directory. The first object to be migrated will be created but the second object will be treated as a duplicate. Quest NDS Migrator's collision detection does not recognize this issue. |
TF#37990 |
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If the Group SAM Account Name truncation option is turned on and there are two Organizational Roles whose names are identical for the first 20 characters, only one of the two Organizational Roles will be migrated. The second Organizational Role will be treated as a duplicate. |
TF#37991 |
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File Migrations |
Macintosh files and folders that have the Apple symbol in their name are incorrectly migrated. The migrated file or folder does not appear with an icon and disappears when double-clicked. | TF#38689 |
| If the password option selected for user migrations does not meet the password policies on the target, migrated users will not be able to log on to the target. WORKAROUND: Reset the password on the target. | TF#35123 | |
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Quest NDS Migrator is unable to view the Virtual Server Name of a Microsoft Cluster. The Physical Nodes of the cluster are available, but not the Virtual Name. |
TF#37992 |
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Folders or files that end up with a path longer than 260 characters (but no more than 4,256 characters) on the target Windows server can be migrated; however, there no known commercial tools that allow users to view these folders and files with long path names. For more information, refer to the following: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210631/en-us Folders or files with paths already longer than 260 characters on the source Netware server cannot be accessed by NDS Migrator. |
TF#37993 |
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A migration is still scheduled even if the Windows Administrator password is not provided. In the Schedule Migration dialog box, once you click Schedule the migration is scheduled regardless of whether one enters a Windows Administrator password for the target computer or not. However, the migration will not be able to start without the Administrator password. WORKAROUND: Add the password manually using Scheduled Tasks, one of the native system tools provided by Windows. To access this tool, select Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Scheduled Tasks. |
TF#37994 |
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Comments on Mac files are not migrated to the target. |
TF#37995 |
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Trustees in the Novell trustee list of a file or folder that have no given rights are translated to explicit deny full-control ACEs in NTFS. Other trustees with given rights are translated to the appropriate allow ACEs in NTFS. |
TF#37996 |
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If you are scheduling a remote file migration or scan, you must make sure that the Remote Registry Access is set in order to allow your permissions to access the registry of the remote computer. Otherwise, you will not be able to run the task schedule. |
TF#37997 |
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When doing more than one migration using the Update DACL instead of the Replace DACL option, a target Windows file or target Windows folder can end up with both a deny and an allow ACE in its DACL for a trustee. This happens when the trustee has some Netware rights before one migration and the trustee's rights are then set to none prior to a subsequent migration. The presence of both deny and allow ACEs for a trustee is harmless. The deny ACE comes first and blocks any rights that may be granted by the allow ACE. Subsequent updates to the DACL update both ACEs appropriately. |
TF#37998 |
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The Exclude Folder page of Project Options does not properly accept folders with certain characters in their path. When the path of a folder contains characters that are not in the current Windows ANSI character set, that folder’s path will not be properly recorded in the list of excluded folders. For example, if your computer uses US English Windows, US English ANSI characters such as µ ¶ ¸ ¹ » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿ À Ê Ç ç é will be correctly recorded in the folder path. However, box drawing characters such as ╝ ╬ ║ ╕ ╢ ▓ ┼ ╔ ╠ are not in the English ANSI character set and will not be correctly recorded in the path. You can review the excluded folder list after a folder is added. If the folder name is not displayed correctly in the list, then it will not be excluded correctly. |
TF#37999 |
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In the file migration logs, the number of read-only files and the number of successfully updated files can be reported incorrectly when there are zero-sized files on the source. When a file on the target is successfully overwritten with a zero-length source file, the number of read-only files is incorrectly incremented instead of the number of successfully updated files. |
TF#38000 |
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The "Update DACL" file migration option will causes an error in NTDLL.DLL if a target file or folder does not have a DACL. Files and folders with no DACL will not occur if NDS Migrator is used to copy the contents of the files and folders. However, files and folders with no DACL can occur if another file copying tool is used instead. WORKAROUND: The "Replace DACL" option should be used the first time NDS Migrator is used to migrate Netware rights to the files on the target Windows server. |
TF#38001 |
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Workstation Updater |
If a shortcut path name contains spaces, the shortcut will not be updated as NDS Migrator does not recognize the full path name. | TF#37085 |
| If a shortcut path name contains characters from the ANSII extended character set, the shortcut will not be updated. | TF#11519 | |
| Updating workgroups from the network takes a noticeable amount of time. | TF#38003 | |
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Workstation Updater does not reliably join workstations to child domains. |
TF#38004 |
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| Once users have confirmed that drive mappings have been updated, they must manually delete the c:\QuestDriveMap folder. | TF#38005 | |
| Server Link Updater | When a link update job is run, the Server Link Updater will close all instances of .doc, .xls, and .pps files on a server regardless of what shares and folders were targeted for the link update. | TF#38006 |
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Link updater fails to update links when Microsoft® PowerPoint is not installed. WORKAROUND: Install Microsoft® Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. |
TF#38007 |
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Access Based Enumeration |
In order to have ABE functioning as expected, you must set the security in the target root share or the root subfolder under the target share to AUTHENTICATED USERS. In the advanced options for the inheritance you must set AUTHENTICATED USERS to “This Folder only” on that ACL list. |
TF#38008 |
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Password Synchronization Utility |
If you are running IIS 6.0 you must enable the Web Extensions Active Server Pages in order to run the Password Synchronization Utility. To do this, open the IIS Manager and select the Web Services Extensions folder in the left panel. From the list of extensions that appear in the right panel, select Active Server Pages and change its status by clicking the Allow button. |
TF#38009 |
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The Password Synchronization Utility fails to install on a non-English server. |
TF#38010 |
The following should be considered when upgrading Quest NDS Migrator:
Application upgrades are not supported. However, database upgrades from older versions of NDS Migrator to Release 4.3 are supported.
The 4.3 release of Quest NDS Migrator uses a 4.x license key in order to run. If you are upgrading from a 4.x version of NDS Migrator, you do not need to obtain a new key before starting the upgrade process. If you have a version lower than 4.x, you will require a new license key prior to upgrading. Please contact License@quest.com for more information. For updated license information, please see
https://support.quest.com/SUPPORT/index?page=licenseKey
It is necessary to update your database. Select the Update option in the DBInstaller dialog box.
The 4.3 release of Quest NDS Migrator uses a 4.x license key in order to run. If you are upgrading from a 4.x version of NDS Migrator, you do not need to obtain a new key before starting the upgrade process. If you have a version lower than 4.x, you will require a new license key prior to upgrading. Please contact License@quest.com for more information.
Before installing NDS Migrator, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
Note: If the NDS Migrator database resides on the same machine as NDS Migrator, SQL Server or MSDE system requirements must be met in addition to the following requirements.
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| Resource Updating |
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This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English or non-ASCII configurations. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.
This release can be used on systems in different time zones, which are in different languages, and use different regional options. All components of this product must be configured to use the same default system code page. This product limits support to the Western European code page 1252. Other configurations and single-byte encodings may work appropriately, but have not been extensively tested. Multi-byte character data is not supported.
The NDS Migrator release package contains the following products:
Before you start the installation, it is recommended that you close all the previously open applications.
The complete NDS Migrator documentation suite includes the following:
You can display the online help by selecting an option from the Help menu or by pressing F1.
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