transfering user profiles

[BadgerBrian]

we have set up our test win 2k3 on a seperate subnet on our network, this will soon become our primary domain controller when we power down our old 2000 servers

we have set up everything on this server, users/groups, security and permissions, dns , etc

we connected one of our user computers to this new subnet to check everything works - which it did, created an a record etc.

However the problem is that it created a new login user profile for the user -brian
So when we look in docs and settings it has the account of brian and brian.****
brian is the old account on the origonal network login and brian.**** is the new logon profile.

What i want to do is transfer the origonal profile to the new network logon profile.

I found by removing the brian account from the network to the workgroup, rebooting logging in and then rejoining the network , i vould then log in as admin and delete the new profile brian.**** and then renaming brian to brian.****
when i logged back into the network it used the settings that i wanted.....

however this is a long workaround.

i saw that i could go into system - advanced - user profiles- settings
highlight the user profile that i wanted and then copy it to the new profile, however it doesnt give m ethe copy option for that profile - only for the admin profiles.....

is there any way i can do this, as we have 12 pc's all with set user desktop settings that we want to keep .

thanks

 

[tom11011]

Are you logged in as domain admin?

 

[BadgerBrian]

i wasnt when i first checked it - i was logged in as a local admin and then local user to test it....
both times the copy box on everything except the admin user profiles were greyed out.....
So if i log in under the domain admin i would be able to do it??

if so is there a set way to do this?

as i said i have at least 15 user profiles id like to keep and move ont o the new server without them getting new profiles created for them....