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Moving Profiles from one Terminal Server to another...? How?

Hi,
My client has a windows 2003 server with exchange and set up as a Terminal Server and a Domain Controller ( I have inherited!)
We now talked the into having a separate server for Terminal Services.
What I like to work out is to somehow migrate/tranfer/whatever the existing profiles and settings from the old server to the new Terminal Server.

What is the easiest way if it is possible or do we need to setup each user from scratch?

TIA,

Tom

Malli Boppe

Use a NT backup to backup and restore profiles.
or use
robocopy source destination /mir /copyall

nightmare2

First you need to export the profile list from the old server and import it in the new:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileGuid
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Then you can copy the profiles.
Run this command from the new server:
robocopy "\\<oldTS>\c$\documents and settings" "c:\documents and settings" /COPYALL /S /XD
      "\\<oldTS>\c$\documents and settings\Administrator"
     "\\<oldTS>\c$\documents and settings\LocalService"
     "\\<oldTS>\c$\documents and settings\NetworkService"
     "\\<oldTS>\c$\documents and settings\Default User"
     "\\<oldTS>\c$\documents and settings\All Users"

tom_szabo

ASKER

Thanks for these!

I assume I would run this for all users like:

"\\<oldTS>\c$\documents and settings\User1"
"\\<oldTS>\c$\documents and settings\User2"
.....
TIA,

Tom

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