domain migration & account profiles 2

[ravashaak]

We will soon be migrating from our existing domain into a new forest/domain. I think I have formulated ways to script most of this process, as well as maintain services at acceptable levels throughout the migration. However, I have yet to determine a way to automate the copying of users' existing profiles into their new domain account profiles.

I know that I could manually perform first logon on each user's computer for their new accounts, and then manually perform a profile copy through the "User Profiles" section of the "System Properties" page. However, I'd like something that I can automate if possible. If there is some way to perform a profile copy, or its equivalent, from the command line, that would fit the bill. There could also be some utility to ease this process. I'm open to any suggestions really. Thanks!

 

[ravashaak]

Heh, I take it the lack of response means no one else knows of a method to perform this either?

 

[techieee]

If you migrate between 2 domains there's is an excellent article how to automate it at:

http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=41668

you have to be a subscriber to be able to read it.

I do have another issue.
I'm migrating from Netware to Windows, so when a user logs in the 1st time into the new Windows domain a new profile gets created.
How do I copy the old local profile to the new domain profile on the same PC with out going through all these wizards, basically I’m looking for something easy that works on both Windows 2000 Pro and XP Pro.

Thanks

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151

But note you do have to perform an initial logon to create the bones of the user profile.

I have had a lot of luck just renaming the profile:
Original profile: johndoe
New domain profile: johndoe.domain

Trick:
rename johndoe.domain johndoe.bak
rename johndoe johndoe.domain