Creating Users and Groups That Are Used by Applications

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 with SP1

The Web sites and applications on the source server might be accessed by accounts that are local to the source server. The local user and group accounts need to be created on the target server so that the accounts can access the Web sites and applications on the target server.

In cases where the users and groups that are used by the applications exist in Active Directory, no steps are required and you can continue to the next migration step. To continue to the next step in the migration process, see Creating Registry Entries for Applications.

Create the users and groups that are used by applications and are local to the source server by completing the following steps:

  1. Identify the users and groups that are local to the source server.

  2. For each group on the source server, create a corresponding group on the target server.

  3. For each user on the source server, create a corresponding user on the target server.

  4. For each user created in Step 3, assign the user to the same groups as the corresponding user on the source server.

    For more information about viewing the users and groups on the source server, see "Creating user and group accounts" in Windows 2000 Server Help and Windows NT Server 4.0 Help. For more information about creating users and groups in Windows Server 2003, see Create a Service Account.

  5. For each user created in Step 3, assign the same user rights assigned to the corresponding user on the source server.

    For more information about assigning user rights to a user, see Grant User Rights to a Service Account.

  6. Assign the same NTFS permissions for the content on the target server as the NTFS permissions for the content on the source server.

    For more information about configuring NTFS permissions on the target server, see Configure NTFS Permissions.