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Is there a utility or a way to join a pc (workgroup) to active directory and keeping the user profile.

Hello Experts,
I have a workgroup network and it has 25 PCs, in couple of days I will install a new server wich will have Win2008, this server will have AC.
so those 25 PCs will join the domain, but all of them has Email account and data and if I transfer ecach user profile it will take me long time, so is there a way or a utility that I can join the doman but have the new profile pointing to the old profile, having in mind the the naming of the users will change.
Also if you have a link for roaming the profile on the server inluding the emails.
thank you in advance.
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Just to add: You can use WET with XP and Vista, but use the one for Windows 7, it's a newer client and works better.
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Hello,
This might look stupid, but I can’t get the scanstate to work, am getting error messages all the time.
Final command I used was:
scanstate \\FileSrv\Migrations /i .\migapp.inf /i .\migsys.inf /I .\miguser.inf /i .\sysfiles.inf /i .\files.inf

and I got this in the log file
Error         File specification
              %CSIDL_APPDATA%\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk\RasPhone.PBK
              is not valid

Error         Line:
              %CSIDL_APPDATA%\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk\RasPhone.PBK

Error         Line: CopyFilesEx = RasCopyNT5
Fatal Error   Failing because of processing error in [System Settings]
              [ERROR=1223 (4C7h)]

Error         Failed in SCRIPT during computation of the processing queue
              [ERROR=1223 (4C7h)]

Am still testing I didn’t start working on the actual Pcs yet, ok if I want to backup everything concerning the current user that am logged in as,  what would be the command structure?
scanstate \\Filesrv\Migrations...........................................................................

Thank you in advance