What's the best way to convert a local user account into a domain user account, keeping files and settings?
My company's about to deploy some Windows Servers for the first time. Currently all users log on locally to a Workgroup. Once the windows server's in place, what's the best way to convert the local user account into the newly created domain account keeping files and settings?
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My honest opinion, is that unless you have a ton of users to migrate, just create new profiles. You can script out the settings you do wanna keep, like email/network printers/mappings etc., and migrate the data. Otherwise you risk having permissions problems on the new profile depending on the methods you use for the migration. Remember,the profile data and the registry are embedded with permissions specific to the local user, and even if you use the same name, the SID will be different, and hence where the problems *might* occur.....
Plus it is a great time to start off with a fresh profile.....
Plus it is a great time to start off with a fresh profile.....
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555542
Or you can use User State Migration Tool.
Or this way as well
http://msmvps.com/blogs/clustering/archive/2004/10/06/15096.aspx