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Workgroup to Domain Migration - Local Machine User Profiles
I am migrating a small 11 pc worgroup to a 2003 domain, and have a question regarding migrating their previous local profiles to their new local machine/domain user profiles.
I remember a couple of years ago, there was a way to repath the new user profiles to their previous profile by renaming the user folder to their new username, and then there was a registry entry that has to be modified. I really do not want to sit there all day and copy over their Doc, and other settings to the new profile. Can anyone remember how to do this correctly? Help!!
I remember a couple of years ago, there was a way to repath the new user profiles to their previous profile by renaming the user folder to their new username, and then there was a registry entry that has to be modified. I really do not want to sit there all day and copy over their Doc, and other settings to the new profile. Can anyone remember how to do this correctly? Help!!
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Do I need to make any registry changes ?
Nope, no need for registry changes,
But please make sure you create an user with test and try before doing this to real profile,
If you are comfortable , then do for other profiles,
THis worked fantastic for me
But please make sure you create an user with test and try before doing this to real profile,
If you are comfortable , then do for other profiles,
THis worked fantastic for me
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athavasi there can be ntfs permission issues on the profile folder if you do not follow my orginal link.
While this may have worked for you in the past, I have done this many, many times and there have been occasions where certain user reg entries etc just weren't carried over right.
My dumbed down list is as follows:
Login as domain user to create profile
Logout
Logon as domain admin
Go to documents and settings
Add the relevant domain user with full control to old profile
View hidden files
Run regedit.regedit32
Hklm
Registry-load - hive go to old profile and load ntuser,dat
Add domain user with full permissions
Unload registry hive
Hklm\software\microsoft\wi
Locate profile of old user and copy profileimagepath value
Locate profile of new domain user and past in profile image path of old user to profile image path of new user
This has never failed for me.
The cautious among you will copy out my docs and ie favorites etc to another folder on C drive just for some form of backup.
While this may have worked for you in the past, I have done this many, many times and there have been occasions where certain user reg entries etc just weren't carried over right.
My dumbed down list is as follows:
Login as domain user to create profile
Logout
Logon as domain admin
Go to documents and settings
Add the relevant domain user with full control to old profile
View hidden files
Run regedit.regedit32
Hklm
Registry-load - hive go to old profile and load ntuser,dat
Add domain user with full permissions
Unload registry hive
Hklm\software\microsoft\wi
Locate profile of old user and copy profileimagepath value
Locate profile of new domain user and past in profile image path of old user to profile image path of new user
This has never failed for me.
The cautious among you will copy out my docs and ie favorites etc to another folder on C drive just for some form of backup.
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Semper Phi marines. You are all awesome lol.
did any of them worked ?Trihimbulus
I am new to here, you guys are doing a great job , Keep up the good work
I am new to here, you guys are doing a great job , Keep up the good work
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I am doing it within the next couple of hours. I will post the results :)
"Wow, stop! Why are you guys making this so difficult?"
Whats so difficult about a single change in the registry?
Whats so difficult about a single change in the registry?
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I went the registry route and it's going fine :)
I just think why edit the registry, why there is a built in tool within windows for doing it withough editing the registry, much easier and less prone to error. it is all a matter of choice though!
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My main issue was that there wasn't enoiugh room on the hard drives to duplicate that data. Thanks everyone - all correct answers!
Glad your happy!!
Mark's solution, while useful when migrating an XP account, is unhelpful under Vista (the basis of this question). In Vista there is no "advanced tab" as it is no longer a tabbed interface. If there is a similarly GUI solution available, I'd love to hear about it. I currently have a box that I did a Domain-Join with and I am not looking forward to the chorus of howls that will go up on Monday when every password, program setting, and wallpaper has to be manually restored.
"Advanced" tab still exists:
right-click Computer
click Properties
click Advanced System Settings (on the left menu)
And you're there (right on the Advanced tab)
right-click Computer
click Properties
click Advanced System Settings (on the left menu)
And you're there (right on the Advanced tab)
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