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Migrating Profiles
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Mithrandir01
MIS
I'm not sure if this'll work when changing domains, but I don't see why it shouldn't: the local profile in Win2k is stored in C:\My Documents and Settings\username. Just copy the contents of that folder into your new user's profile. That will keep their Favorites, Desktop, Cookies, and Start Menu, and I think some other things too.
Hope that helps!
Anthony
Hope that helps!
Anthony
As Anthony says you should be able to copy profiles from old to new locations - best done using the copy to (system properties, user profiles) feature (at the original location, copying to new location, if this is possible). If using roaming profiles, you should just be able to set user on new domain to use the copied profile. If local profiles, user will need to have logged on to local machine & created a profile before you copy old one over it (if you do copy first, windows will just create a new profile with a .suffix the first time user logs on to new domain).
MisterNiceGuy
MIS
I have seen problems with copying profiles directly in this fashion, so the standard way we use in our environment is to copy the users profile to the default users profile of the computer being joined to the domain, then logging onto the domain as the user(at this point the user's profiles is created from the default users profile with) after this has completed, I re-copy the administrators profile back to the default users profile. Copying in all cases here must be done using the profile tab of System properties.
Simply copying the profile will not work because of the SIDS and permissions on the ntuser.dat file. It works when copying on the same domain, but users SIDS are different when domain membership changes, even if the username is left the same.
I ran into this recently and here is what I found that worked. I posted my solution under the thread 'Keeping registry settings when joinging a new domain' - Tweek -
Information Systems Analyst
Consulting Group in L.A.
I ran into this recently and here is what I found that worked. I posted my solution under the thread 'Keeping registry settings when joinging a new domain' - Tweek -
Information Systems Analyst
Consulting Group in L.A.
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