Domain Migration SharePoint Users Powershell

Question

There is currently a domain migration happening within our organisation. The users accounts are being migrated from a sub-domain to top level domain.

As part of this we have two SharePoint Farms - but our main SharePoint environment resides in the top level domain.

How can I migrate the users profiles in both SharePoint environments so that they will all work with same permissions/groups/etc. in the main SharePoint Farm in our top level domain.

My preference is to script this using Powershell if possible.

Answer 1

Take a look a Move-SPUser to see if that works for you.

Here is the example from TechNet

Move-SPUser -Identity "DomainA\JaneDoe" -NewAlias "DomainB\JaneDoe"

Just be careful of your service accounts when scripting it.

Answer 2

Just to add - You can use

$farm.MigrateGroup($.oldlogin, $.newlogin)

to migrate AD groups. Here are references to few PowerShell scripts to automate your migration process. You can use an input CSV file to do the migration.

Good luck - hope this helps!

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sowmyancs/archive/2012/01/07/migrate-users-groups-powershell-script.aspx
• http://www.sharepointdiary.com/2014/12/migrate-sharepoint-users-from-one-domain-to-another.html

Answer 3

you can use the STSADM command for that:

STSADM.EXE -o migrateuser -oldlogin “i:0#.w|SourceDomain\OldUser151” -newlogin “i:0#.w|TargetDomain\NewUser151” -ignoresidhistory

The following article describes the SharePoint user migration process in more detail.

https://medium.com/@huptdawas/migrate-sharepoint-userprofiles-from-one-domain-to-another-4b2e45e3ccdb