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You could certainly do that, change the profile path for all the users in the domain to the new location and check to see if the profiles are stored correctly. Do them in small batches of users, to ensure that if it goes wrong, you only have a few to reset.

I have done this in the past by using cacls to edit the profile permissions so that my (or domain admin) user ID is added to the NTFS permissions for the profiles. Then, you can move them without any problem. However, you still have to edit the users in AD to set the profile path to the new location. If you are going to change the profile path in AD without copying the profile folders, you will need to caution your users, or you will probably be getting a lot of support calls saying that when they logged on they got an error message about their roaming profile not being available. This of course will correct itself when they log off and the profile is copied to the new location. Just be sure that all users (Everyone group) has Full Access rights to the new profile folder location so that they don't have any trouble writing back to it.

Hope this helps!

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