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You Cannot Update the SID History for Group with the Active Directory Migration Tool

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Article ID:269352
Last Review:December 3, 2007
Revision:3.5
This article was previously published under Q269352

SUMMARY

When you migrate groups with the Active Directory Migration tool, you may receive the following error message in the Active Directory Migration log file:
SID History cannot be updated for group because the SID for group already exists in the forest. rc=8539.
A net helpmsg for 8539 yields the following error text:
The source object's SID already exists in destination forest.

MORE INFORMATION

This error can be caused by renaming the group and then migrating it again. The security identifier (SID) in the SID history can only exist in one place in the forest.
APPLIES TO
•Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
•Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
•Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
•Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
•Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)
•Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition
•Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition

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