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Migrate user profiles

Hi, I currently have a mixed bag of PCs, some running XP and some running W7.

I need to wipe all the PCs and install the company SOE on them, which is XP. I want to be able to preserve everyone's local user profiles and re-apply them once the SOE has been installed.

The other problem is, everyone's usernames are changing as they are being migrated to a new domain.

I had a look at USMT which would allow me to take a copy of the state of each PC but not sure it will work going from W7 to XP, or even XP to XP?

And how would I apply the olddomain/user profile to newdomain/user?

I also read about "moveuser.exe", would this be any better?

5g6tdcv4

USMT will do this. You need to do a regular scanstate, and when you do the loadstate on the new pc on the new domain you need to use [/md:OldDomain:NewDomain] [/mu:OldDomain\OldUserName:[NewDomain\]NewUserName

You can only use usmt to move either to the same OS or higher for example XP_x86 to XP_x64 or from win7_x86 to Win7_x86
You can not "go backwards" using usmt

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amaru96

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When you run the loadstate does the profile need to exist or does it create it?

As for the migration part of it, I plan on using ADMT but unless I'm mistaken that won't help with the local profile problem?

And thanks for the link to Forensit, the tool looks quite promising.

amaru96

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I tried USMT with the [/md:OldDomain:NewDomain] [/mu:OldDomain\OldUserName:[NewDomain\]NewUserName switches but it doesn't apply the profile to the newdomain user.

Instead when I log in as newdomain\newuser it creates a new profile for that user as newuser.newdomain in Docs & Settings

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amaru96

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Although the my question is not entirely 100% answered, the solution provided by xxdcmast has helped me get through the problem and I would like to assign him the points.