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Moving NT Profiles on WinNT

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by j-tek 1 view

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Hi,

I'm in the process of moving from WinNT domain to active directory. I've moved machines over to AD but users' profiles are still logged in as the old NT domain. how can I migrate these profiles so users can login using their new accounts but have their old profile? If I get enough info, I will publish a nice tutorial for everyone.

thanx,

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by mfischer

If you haven't changed the name of the domain then a new profile will not be created. Importantly enough what are the oses of the workstations? A profile is named similarly to the fqdn of the user. I.E. joe.schmo.domain The only way to have a new profile created is to change the login context of the user. If one changes the name of the domain from "domain" to "domain2" then windows will create a NEW profile for the user and label it joe.schmo.domain2 - from there all you'll need to do is copy the contents of the old profile folder to the new one.

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