moving profiles

[prha]

Hello,

I have quite a few profiles stored on an old NT 4 machine. I also have newer users with profiles on a windows2003 server machine.
I am trying to get rid of the old NT server as it's older than the planet earth and causing me trouble day after day. To do this I need to move the profiles over to the 2003 machine.
Can anyone advise the best way to do this with mimimum disruption to the users. I have read about Xcopy, but am not sure fully how to use this feature, am also reluctant to do them all in one go, incase it goes wrong
Any tips?

many thanks

Dai

 

[blakey2]

Hi Prha,

I'm unsure if it will work with NT.. but if you are running your Active Directory in 2003 and you have roaming profiles it should..

All you need to do is change the profile path associated with the user's account properties within AD. - Change it to the new location (using same format as you have used for other users with profiles on the 2003 share). If you receive any error messages these will most likeley be a result of incorrect permissions on the server share. Double check these.

Assuming the users log into the same workstation, it will realise that there is no profile on the server, use the cached profile on the local machine and copy/sync it back to the server at log off.

As I said - this works in a 2k, 2k3 domain however if you are running a NT directory I could not guarantee that it would.

Cheers.