Active Directory Domain Services 2008 : Automatically Populate a Migration Table from a Group Policy Object

Scenario/Problem: You have a GPO in your forest that you need to migrate to another forest. The GPO assigns a number of user rights assignments to groups in your forest. You are unsure which groups are used in the GPO. You need to ensure that these user rights assignments are migrated to a group in the other forest.

Solution: Automatically populate a migration table from a GPO.

To automatically populate a migration table from a GPO, perform the following steps:

1.	Log on to a domain controller or a member computer that has Windows Server 2008 RSAT installed.
2.	Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Group Policy Management.
3.	In the console tree, right-click the domains node and click, Open Migration Table Editor.
4.	Select Tools from the menu, and click Populate from GPO.
5.	On the Select GPO window, shown in Figure 1, select the GPO you want to use to populate the migration and click OK. Figure 1. Selecting a GPO.
6.	In the Destination Name column, shown in Figure 2, type the name of each group in the destination forest. Figure 2. Automatically populating a migration table from a GPO.
7.	Select File from the menu, and click Save.
8.	Enter a name to use to save the migration table, and click Save.