When you change a users laptop from being currently joined to a workgroup to a new Windows 2003 Domain, what's the best way to ensure that their "XP Desktop" environment/settings are also copied over? I need to move about 15 users from their current peer to peer Windows 2000 workgroup to a new Windows 2003 Server/Domain that I recently setup. I'd like to do this with as little impact to their environment as possible. I know about the copy profile feature under Control Panel / System but are there any gotchas or tips that someone that has done this may have to offer?
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Copying Profiles in XP?
- Thread starter dkraut
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This past week I did what you wanted to do. The procedure that I did was the following:
Logged onto the computer as Administrator (of the computer)
Had the computer join the new domain
Logged off as Administrator
Logged onto the new Domain as a user
Logged off the computer
Logged onto the computer as Administrator (of the computer)
Did the Copy profile from the original user to new user
Everything worked great. Did not loose any programs/data. Their Email (Outlook 2000) worked just fine. Everything pointed to the correct locations. All the mapped drives were still there.
We are getting ready to replace a NT4.0 SBS/domain with a brand new 2003 active directory/domain. Since the new domain is going to be a totally different name, the above procedure will save us tons of time.
Good luck
Logged onto the computer as Administrator (of the computer)
Had the computer join the new domain
Logged off as Administrator
Logged onto the new Domain as a user
Logged off the computer
Logged onto the computer as Administrator (of the computer)
Did the Copy profile from the original user to new user
Everything worked great. Did not loose any programs/data. Their Email (Outlook 2000) worked just fine. Everything pointed to the correct locations. All the mapped drives were still there.
We are getting ready to replace a NT4.0 SBS/domain with a brand new 2003 active directory/domain. Since the new domain is going to be a totally different name, the above procedure will save us tons of time.
Good luck
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