I am bringing up a brand new domain, however when I point my workstations to the new domain .. it will create a local profile user.newdomain ... i want the machine to use the old local profile and not the new one.. however I dont want to manually copy over all the favorites and what not.. is there a better way to do this ???
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Local Profile Issue
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stevensavage
IS-IT--Management
As the SID for these users are different you can use the following to change relevant settings and keep your profiles :
But to be honest - I did a couple like this when recently moving a domain to test and it took too long to warrant it. Using the new profile and copying the relevant favs etc was far quicker.
If it is a very large organization you could use Quest Fastlane - I have not used it but have heard its good for an enterprise move but not worth using unless dealing with many users.
But to be honest - I did a couple like this when recently moving a domain to test and it took too long to warrant it. Using the new profile and copying the relevant favs etc was far quicker.
If it is a very large organization you could use Quest Fastlane - I have not used it but have heard its good for an enterprise move but not worth using unless dealing with many users.
What you need to do is think about this migration. You will have to do some manual work at each workstation. So you will probably have to do some of these steps:
Pre-migration work:
1) migrate or export some of the user settings to a network share. Like export IE favorites, Outlook PST's, etc. to a network share
2) Record what printers and mapped drives the user has
Migration work:
1) logon to pc using the users new domain logon (this creates the new domain profile)
2) Migrate the old local profile to the new local domain profile:
- Logon as an Administrator to the local machine
- Right click MY computer and click the User Profiles tab
- From the list of all the profiles stored on the machine, select the one you want to copy
- Click the "Copy to" button
- In the "Copy profile to" enter the location where you want it copied. (point to the new profile created to the user on the local machine...with the user.newdomain
- In the "Permitted to use" click Change. Select Everyone and click Add or just the user who will use it, then click OK.
- Click OK to start the copy.
3) Import the IE favorites while logged in as the domain user
4) import the PST or migrate to domain Exchange server
-this is just an example...but I think you will have some manual steps...
Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003
If your company is in need of experts to examine technical problems/solutions, please contact (Sales@njcomputernetworks.com)
Pre-migration work:
1) migrate or export some of the user settings to a network share. Like export IE favorites, Outlook PST's, etc. to a network share
2) Record what printers and mapped drives the user has
Migration work:
1) logon to pc using the users new domain logon (this creates the new domain profile)
2) Migrate the old local profile to the new local domain profile:
- Logon as an Administrator to the local machine
- Right click MY computer and click the User Profiles tab
- From the list of all the profiles stored on the machine, select the one you want to copy
- Click the "Copy to" button
- In the "Copy profile to" enter the location where you want it copied. (point to the new profile created to the user on the local machine...with the user.newdomain
- In the "Permitted to use" click Change. Select Everyone and click Add or just the user who will use it, then click OK.
- Click OK to start the copy.
3) Import the IE favorites while logged in as the domain user
4) import the PST or migrate to domain Exchange server
-this is just an example...but I think you will have some manual steps...
Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003
If your company is in need of experts to examine technical problems/solutions, please contact (Sales@njcomputernetworks.com)
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