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Hello everyone,

I'm currently a student and I have a technology watch project to present. My topic is: "Study of the migration from a multisite Active Directory 2012 to Samba 4".
I have several questions on the subject as I'm a bit lost.
- During the migration from Active Directory to Samba, how is DNS managed? The same question applies to the file server.
- How does Samba handle multisite? To keep it simple, I'll use the example of two sites with different subnets and a domain controller for each site.
- How does Samba handle Exchange migration?
- Do you have a tutorial for migrating from Active Directory 2012 to Samba?
- Can you tell me what needs to be considered to ensure a smooth migration to Samba?

Thank you for your understanding.

Hello hauyeq,

hauyeq wrote: ↑Oct 7, 2020 - 3:21 PM - During the migration from AD to Samba, how is DNS managed? Same question for the file server?

identical to an MS-AD.

- How does Samba handle multisite? To keep it simple, I'll use the example of two sites with different subnets and a domain controller for each site

identical to an MS-AD

- How does Samba handle Exchange migration?

Samba-AD manages the Active Directory portion, not the Exchange portion. Exchange requires schema extensions (likely supported) and certain LDAP extensions (not necessarily supported, to be verified depending on the Exchange version).

- Do you have a tutorial for migrating from AD 2012 to Samba?

See the documentation; you must first downgrade to FL2008R2

- Can you tell me what needs to be taken into account to ensure a smooth migration to Samba?

Active Directory isn't simple, and Samba-AD is an implementation of Active Directory. So it's not simple, but it's not complicated either if you have a good grasp of AD technologies.
Sincerely,
Denis