{"id":44657,"date":"2023-07-26T10:29:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/?p=44657"},"modified":"2024-11-08T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T22:20:21","slug":"automate-active-directory-migration-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/automate-active-directory-migration-tool","title":{"rendered":"Easily Migrate from Active Directory with New JumpCloud Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s understandable if IT admins balk at the suggestion of migrating dozens, or even hundreds of users, away from Active Directory (AD). That\u2019s why JumpCloud provides a free and open source (FOSS) tool called Active Directory Migration Utility<\/a> (ADMU) to assist with endpoint migrations. Migrating users from AD to JumpCloud unifies cross-domain identity and device management, which reduces costs, improves operational efficiencies, and strengthens cybersecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Is the ADMU?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

ADMU is an open source tool that provides automation for IT admins to migrate AD and Azure AD (AAD) profiles to local accounts, which is necessary to enable JumpCloud to manage those profiles. Administrators have flexible options for change management and can pre-plan which accounts to take over and when for subsequent JumpCloud takeover and management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JumpCloud can also make AD better. The Active Directory Integration<\/a> (ADI) makes it possible for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to extend AD while keeping in place what it does well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

How Does ADMU Work?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The tool copies information from an AD\/AzureAD profile into a new local profile which is taken over by JumpCloud during migration. The user can then be loaded directly into JumpCloud from this state. The ADMU also unbinds said user and their system from the domain and installs the JumpCloud system agent. Once this process is complete, the admin can take full advantage of the JumpCloud directory service to manage their migrated users\/systems. Some larger migrations may leverage a slightly different order of operations to take advantage of JumpCloud commands<\/a> for greater optionality to select which user profile to migrate to for each endpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cChetAtkins\u201d is set to be converted to \u201cbob.smith\u201d. The tool will install the JumpCloud agent, create a new account \u201cbob.smith\u201d, and migrate Chet\u2019s account over to Bob. Then, it will associate the JumpCloud account \u201cbob.smith\u201d to the local account \u201cbob.smith\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flexible Deployment Options<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One size doesn\u2019t always fit all. That\u2019s why ADMU can be deployed for both small and large-scale migrations in a number of ways, and includes an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), and a PowerShell Module that can be utilized with PowerShell remoting (PSRemoting) to migrate multiple systems and profiles at once. It can be deployed in following ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n