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by yamvirago250

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I've been thrust into a system admin job for a school system. I'm a newbie at this. We have some school principals who sometimes change schools from one year to the next. When this happens we just move their user ID over to the container for the other school. However, I discovered one today that had been moved, but her profile remained at her old school. Suddenly it showed her old stuff (evidently it hadn't been...don't understand that one yet). I changed the profile path to that of her present school. The problem is she has lost her stuff. It's not in the present school folder or the old one. Can anyone give me some ideas? I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

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by cg it

check lost and found. [yes there is a lost and found].

I'll assume that each physical location school is a child domain of the school district root domain.

by n3voc

First off are they local or roming profiles?

If local:BEFORE you change their path, you should go to the PC, copy there profile to the server, then copy the profile to the new server, then change the path in Active Directory.

If they are roming, if you just changed the path in AD, the actual profile is still at the old location. You changed the path but didn't move the profile. Copy the profile from the old location, to the new location.

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