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by flyfshmn 1 view

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I have been asked about the plausibility of converting all of our user accounts on an NT4.0 domain from our current standard of first initial last 5 letters of the last name...BGATES for ex. to using a new convention FN.LN

My concern is user profiles from old login. Is there a known program that will help us migrate to this standard? And preserve registry entries and copy the old profile to the new profile???

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Fly

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by lusu

The W2K professional resource kit has moveuser.exe. moveuser.exe changes the security of a profile from one user to another. This allows the account domain to change, and/or the user name to change.

Renaming the user does not change the SID of the user. You can try to rename the profile folder after you rename the user. NTFS uses SIDs to identify users, not the names. Unfortunatelly some applications like Outlook uses full paths that point to the profiles directly... So I guess you have to reconfigure those too...

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