Migrating domains and maintaining profiles

[jameshutchinson008]

I am transferring from a windows NT domain with a mixture of NT/2000 Client workstations to a Windows 2000 domain.

As the users have been domain members for some time now they have all there own little settings (desktop etc.) that I would like to keep for them to leeson the ear ache I get !!

Does anyone have any tips as to how I can maintain the user profiles on the new domain.

Any help is muchly appreciated.

James.

 

[AlexIT]

Make all the profiles roaming, once the user has logged in and out this will be saved on the existing login server. Now copy these to the new server, should keep all existing settings if you aren't changing user login names.

Alex

 

[jameshutchinson008]

The login names are changing from surnamefirstinitial to firstname.lastname unfortunately!!

Any more Ideas?

 

[GlenJohnson]

Right click on my computer and select properties. The fourth tab over says profiles. Once you've moved the people and there settings disapear causing untold momentary grief, you can copy the old profile in the profiles tab over to the new user profile and everything will transfer. Make sure you also select the button allow to use, and change that to the new profile. If you want them to only log onto that profile and not a different one, like logging onto local computer, then log onto the local computer as admin and disable the users account. If they accidently try and log onto the local, they'll get an error message about the account being disabled. They'll have no problem logging onto the domain though. Good luck. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional

"Things are not always as they seem;
the first appearance deceives many."
Phaedrus (15BC - 50AD) Roman poet, short-story writer

 

[jameshutchinson008]

Excellent - worked a treat !!