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XP Profiles moved to new AD

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by ronnonf 1 view

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I have a client that has around 50 machines connected to a Windows 2k AD system. I posted a proposal to rebuild the Windows 2000 AD database from scratch. The problem is the users NEED there profiles migrated.

Initially I was thinking copy profile locally then creating a user in the new domain by connecting the computer to this domain and copying the profile. But there are two problems I could see:
1) This process could take extremely long
2) Doesn't always work.

Any ideas or utils to make life easier?

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by jimjennings

What type of profiles are you talking about, local or roaming? If they are local profiles then there is no real problem maintaining the profiles, though it will take time. You would need to create a local account with the default profile, log on to make sure the profile is created, then log in as administrator, copy the profile that you are trying to save to the default user - grant rights to use this profile to the desired new user (account must already be set up), have that user log on and verify profile, then copy the profile of the local user account created above to the default user and grant access to everyone. Roaming profiles are a bit different, and more painful.

by ronnonf

I already knew about this method. I have noticed 1) That it doesn't always work and
2) You cannot copy the 2 system files. The trick is to copy all files and directories except those.

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