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How to copy local profiles from 2008 R2 to new installation
Hi all,
We have a small office environment with 2008 R2 TS running thin clients. We have installed a new AD and would like to move the profiles which were created locally on the TS to the AD so that when users are logging in they would be logging in with their AD credentials and not the local TS credentials.
How can we achieve that?
Thanx
D.
We have a small office environment with 2008 R2 TS running thin clients. We have installed a new AD and would like to move the profiles which were created locally on the TS to the AD so that when users are logging in they would be logging in with their AD credentials and not the local TS credentials.
How can we achieve that?
Thanx
D.
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Did you succed to do this?
My suggestion would be, if you do not get any more direct responses, to try this on one account and test the functionality:
Step 1:
Identify the user profile path of the account you want to move by doing the following:
While logged into the system as the user, type in %userprofile% into the run box and hit enter. This will bring you to their user profile folder. Write this down
We'll pretend it pointed you to: C:\users\Username
Step 2:
Log in as the domain account , repeat the step above for the domain account, and log out.
Step 3:
Log in as the administrator account and set up the redirect.
If the user does not have local administrative priveleges, you will need to navigate to the user folder ("C:\users/Username") and apply full control permission on that folder for the domain account you are trying to redirect.
Next: open regedit (Start>Run, Regedit) and navigate to the following path:
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Wi
Each key under this directory is a for a seperate login. What we are concerned with is the String Value called ProfileImagePath.
Locate the key that corresponds with your DOMAIN LOGON account (you wrote this down in step 2) and (this would be in the form of C:\users\DomainLogonName or, if the folder already existed, it would be C:\users\DomainLogonName.D
Change value of ProfileImagePath to the user profile path you found in step 1 (C:\users/Username
Once complete, the next logon with the domain account will use all settings and folders for the local account identified in step 1.