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Copying local User Profiles (Win2K)

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by fjaramillo

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We are a Win2k Shop and in the process of migrating our developers to a brand new domain. They are all members of dev1 domain
and we are going to migrate them to the development domain. We only use "Local" profiles and would like to know how tocopy their current profiles to the new domain in order to retain their local profiles??

Thank you
Nando

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by fjaramillo

The original domain "Dev" was setup incorrectly, it is not truly running Active Directory correctly. Will the movetree still work?? Or can I just copy each user's current profile to the new one?? If so how is this done?? We only have 10 developers.

Thanks
Nando

by vagab0nd

Well,

Local profiles are copied qiute easy - all you need is to copy a corresponding folder under Documents and Settings (i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\) and ALL of it's contents (incl. hidded files and folders) to the needed folder on target PC.
If your guys will have the same PCs in new domain just have them logon once, then logon as admin, rigth-click My Computer -> Properties. Go to User Profiles Tab, highlight their old profile and press Copy To... button, browse to new profile and OK
Note: If the usermane is the same but in other domain the needed folder will look as username.DOMAIN rather then just username.

As you have only 10 users that's not going to be a real problem.

Good luck,
Ivan

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