User Profile - swap in between Domains

[vostok1]

Hi all,

A Domain was demounted (due to a disastrous mismanagement of DCs), and a new Domain has been created.

There are customized User Profiles on XP machines left behind (Browser with individual unique Certificate; configured Outlooks with .pst files – Exchange not used; shortcuts to Terminal Servers with configured settings, etc.) It is a call center.

Is there any way how to migrate these profiles into the new Domain without losing configuration? Permissions on the profiles, of course, belong to unknown users and need to be taken.

Has anybody come across a similar issue?

Thanks.

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[monsterjta]

ouch. Can you not just copy the old domain profiles into the current profile directory on each PC? That'd be a starting point, anyway.

Hope This Helps,

Good Luck!

 

[vostok1]

These are profiles on the workstations. Each profile is unique. It contains it's own Cert, Outlook settings, etc. I know this is extremely tricky and wondered if there is a workaround.

 

[monsterjta]

What I mean is, if you log into a PC as Admin and COPY the CONTENTS of the old profile into the contents of the new profile...will those settings be applicable to the new profile when logged in as user?

I have done something similar to this. However, it was with TS Profiles in the same domain.

 

[vostok1]

Monsterjta, I think where you're going. Yes, I did try to create a new profile, take permissions of the old one, rename the old profile, rename the new profile, and login in the old profile. This works under the same domain without a problem. It didn't work here though - the settings are gone.

 

[vostok1]

The second thing I tried was to create a new profile in the new domain and copy the old profile into this new profile when logged on as a local admin on the workstation, exactly as you're suggesting.

Thanks for your thoughts, for it follows the same troubleshooting technique I used. Both ways deliver the same good results but not in this case.