Hi all,
My company has bought a new company so we have to create a new company in our domino server and move a few users into this company.
All user are First LastName/COMPANY and I need to move some of these user to First LastName/NEWCOMPANY in the same domino server.
I need both companies working at same server.
There are anyway to do that? Can sameone explain step by step how to do that?
Regards.
Alejandro Miliozzi
Subject: How to move users to a new company?
There are any number of ways to do this; you simply need to decide how you want to do it. Some concept definitions:
What you refer to as “/Company” is called an Organization in Domino. You can have as many or as few Organizations in your Domain as you like.
The term Domain refers to all the users and servers who have person documents or server documents in one Domino Directory. The users and servers in one Domain can all be in the same Organization, or they can be in different Organizations.
It appears that you have decided that you want the end result to be that you will have two Organizations, /Company and /NewCompany. Ok, so register the new Organization (using the Configuration > Tools > Registration > Organization command in the admin client), and cross-certify the two Organizations. Then you can use the People and Groups > Tools > People > Rename command to migrate existing users (as many at one time as you like, by selecting multiple person documents) to the new Organization, and you can choose either of the two Organizational certifiers when registering new users in the future.
Please understand that the first time a user tries to access a server which is registered in a different organization, they will receive a Cross-Certification On Demand prompt, to which they need only answer Yes and they’ll never see one again. Since this will happen to any new users in /NewCompany as soon as they set up, though, if you set up the users’ workstations for them (as most companies do), you’ll be able to process that prompt instead of the user seeing it. If you automate the setting up of new Notes clients, you’ll want to consider adding the cross-certificate docuemnt from the server’s Directory to the user’s personal address book at that time to prevent the prompt from happening.
Subject: RE: How to move users to a new company?
Thanks for your help!!
I could create new Organization, and also create new user under new organization and it’s working what I need.
I couldn’t move existing user to the new organization, I don’t know why so I will looking for more info to perform this task.
Another thing is when I send a message between users, when I open the message at dest mail database I saw…
Username/NEWCOMPANY@DOMAIN
I found this “DOMAIN” under server configuration\Basics\Domain name. Why this @DOMAIN appear as par of originator address? Are there any what to remove this?
Thank in advance. Alejandro
Subject: RE: How to move users to a new company?
It’s been a while since I’ve worked in an environment with multiple Domino domains that route mail, so I don’t remember what INI file settings, etc. there are to control whether the delivering server strips domain names from addresses, but it certainly is normal behavior. (It certainly is desirable when it’s an internet domain, isn’t it?)
With regard to your attempts to address the by removing the value from the Domain field in the person document, you’ve seen that the domain field has nothing to do with whether addresses contain domain names, so I would hope that you’d set the Domain field back. It is a bit of a redundant piece of info (the domain is defined, after all, by the fact that the document is in that NAB to begin with), but clearly, messing about with mail routing fields in the person doc is ill-advised at best.
Another option, of course, is to merge the two domains. This is a manual process, however, and as such it’s a major PITA if you don’t really need to do it. Here’s an article that describes one approach to the process: