Carshed Active Directory 2000 Server and local profiles.

[Nick]

I have a problem where a AD 2000 server crashed and they did not have
any backups nor a way to repair the registry(only AD server for the
domain). I have recreated a new AD server with the exact ip address
domain name shares etc. My question is there a way to use the local
profiles (2000 profesional) that were created while logging into the
old AD server or do I need to recreate these profiles? Currently users are
able to log into the new AD server with cachecd credentials. However
I am fairly sure this will cause problems long term. Thanks for any help.

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

If they are using cached credentials, they aren't really logging on. You basically have a NEW domain. You will need to
rejoin the machines to the new domain and the users will use new ID's though the ID itself will be the same name if you
set it up that way. The profiles might be able to be converted but I am not familiar with any processes to do so.

 

[Sasha]

When users log on to the new domain, after you create it, in Documents and
settings on the local machine you will have profiles like this:

Doejohn.old_domain and
Doejohn.new_domain

If you want you can simply copy all folders and files from
Doejohn.old_domain to Doejohn.new_domain and all files and setting will be
there. You will need to logon as local administrator or as Domain admin to
do that.

Hope this helps
Sasha

 

[Stevta [MSFT]]

The tools you might use will require the old domain to be
available.
You will have to join the machines to the new domain and
manually copy the file into the new profile.

 

[Nick]

Thanks for all the input from both of you guys. If I simply copy the
folders from the new profile will that copy drive mappings and printer
settings? Thanks Nick