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A company I am working at has Mac laptops that all have local user logon accounts.<br />
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We have added a Server 2016 domain controller and the users will now be signing onto Active Directory to log in to their Macs.<br />
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What utilities or methods are available to migrate all current settings and data from these user's local Mac logon accounts into their new Server 2016 domain logon profiles on these Macs?
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A company I am working at has Mac laptops that all have local user logon accounts.

We have added a Server 2016 domain controller and the users will now be signing onto Active Directory to log in to their Macs.

What utilities or methods are available to migrate all current settings and data from these user's local Mac logon accounts into their new Server 2016 domain logon profiles on these Macs?

Migrate local Mac logon account profile to Server 2016 logon account profile

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