Contact migration

ADManager Plus offers both inter-forest and intra-forest contact migration across the domains in your Active Directory environment.

Steps to migrate contacts using ADManager Plus

1. Log in to ADManager Plus and navigate to the Management tab.
2. In the left pane, click Migration.
3. Under Migration, click Contact Migration.
4. Select the domain from which you'd like to migrate contacts in the Source Domain field.
5. Select the contacts that you'd like to migrate in the Select Contact(s) to be Migrated field.
6. Select the domain and OU to which you'd like to migrate the selected contacts in the Target Domain and Target OU fields, respectively.
7. Under OU Option, choose one of the following.
• Migrate objects directly to the selected Target OU as a flat list: This option migrates the contact as it is into the selected target OU.
• Migrate objects along with their OU hierarchy to the selected Target OU: This option migrates the contact and the OU the contact is a part of in the source to the target domain.
8. Under Conflict Handling, select one of the following options to avoid any duplication during migration.
• Apply this Naming Format: Select the desired naming format that must be used to resolve the conflict while migrating the contact from the drop-down.
• You have the option to either append or increment the suffix of the contact's conflicted attribute value.
• Do not migrate if conflict is detected: Choose this option if you prefer not to migrate the duplicate contact.
9. Click Preview to view and edit the list of conflicts and selected contacts, then click Review to view the final migration list.
10. Click Migrate Now to migrate the selected contacts.

Note: When migrating a contact from one forest to another, a folder is temporarily created on the migrating domain controllers, which will be automatically deleted after the migration process.