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"Here's one thing that has always frustrated me. Partly because everyone seems to have different opions about it.
The thing is there is this lab which has been working in a workgroup environment forever and people have tons of stuff on their desktop and on their local maachines. This cannot change.
Now a domain has been setup and the computers have to be joined to the domain. But whats the best practice to maintian the current desktop for the users even after they log on to the domain. Basically, users should not notice any change in their desktop, local files and folders even after they log on to the domain.
A few things which I tried with unsatisfactory results were,
- to change the Home Folder and the User Profile path to the local computer. For some reason this didnt work, dunno why.
- secondly, I tried the copy profile
- thirdly, I thought I might manually the copy the actual folders from one profile to another."
My situation is similar. I am trying to migrate uer profiles from workgroup/local environment to domain environment for Win2003 AD environment with mostly XP clients. Based on the suggestions on the thread, the steps I follow are the following. It works.
- Login in as Local Administrator and do a copy user profile from local user to the domain user.
- Logged in as the same Local Administrator, download Windows Server utilities and install them.
- After the utilities are available, use the “moveuser” utility to copy from the local user to the domain user. For example,
moveuser localuser domain\domainuser
Now, all this is fine, but I run into issues in some machines as their C drive is small. It is also quoted that this process requires amount of free space at least equal to profile size. Sometimes, I dont have this luxury. what do I do then?? I heard that there are tons of 3rd party tools. Could anyone suggest/recommend some. How about ADMT for what I want to do??
Please advice.
Thanks.
thread96-884203
Edit:
"Here's one thing that has always frustrated me. Partly because everyone seems to have different opions about it.
The thing is there is this lab which has been working in a workgroup environment forever and people have tons of stuff on their desktop and on their local maachines. This cannot change.
Now a domain has been setup and the computers have to be joined to the domain. But whats the best practice to maintian the current desktop for the users even after they log on to the domain. Basically, users should not notice any change in their desktop, local files and folders even after they log on to the domain.
A few things which I tried with unsatisfactory results were,
- to change the Home Folder and the User Profile path to the local computer. For some reason this didnt work, dunno why.
- secondly, I tried the copy profile
- thirdly, I thought I might manually the copy the actual folders from one profile to another."
My situation is similar. I am trying to migrate uer profiles from workgroup/local environment to domain environment for Win2003 AD environment with mostly XP clients. Based on the suggestions on the thread, the steps I follow are the following. It works.
- Login in as Local Administrator and do a copy user profile from local user to the domain user.
- Logged in as the same Local Administrator, download Windows Server utilities and install them.
- After the utilities are available, use the “moveuser” utility to copy from the local user to the domain user. For example,
moveuser localuser domain\domainuser
Now, all this is fine, but I run into issues in some machines as their C drive is small. It is also quoted that this process requires amount of free space at least equal to profile size. Sometimes, I dont have this luxury. what do I do then?? I heard that there are tons of 3rd party tools. Could anyone suggest/recommend some. How about ADMT for what I want to do??
Please advice.
Thanks.