how to maintain user profile when joining domain?

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John Alborn

Hello,

Windows 2000SP4. At my workplace I'm trying to join users from local
workgroup to local domain.
I enabled option Member of Domain. (My Computer, System Properties, Network
Identification, Properties)
and entered domain and user name as it appears on SBS 2003 Active directory
user name list. I received the domain welcome message and restarted w2k
workstation. Now at workstation logon I entered the same user name as was
with earlier profile plus new strong doamin password.
Some PC's joined the domain using the same earlier user profile (including
desktop, installed applications etc) while some PC's created the new profile
adding local to the user name and loosing all previous settings. Weird as
all PC's have the same configuration!

Where to find instructions, how to join the local domain using old existing
administrative user profile without creating new fresh profile?

All these w2k workstations have Administrative accounts renamed by user
name, until now without password, while new domain accounts have new strong
passwords.

I hope anyone can help to solve this issue.

Robert
 
If you join a domain using your own credentials (ID and password) your
settings and documents will be migrated, but if you use a different account
(say, the Administrator account) you'll wind up with two profiles -
<yourname> and <yourname>.<domainname> - and that's that.

You could try copying the old profile over the new one but that could tend
to cause problems with any settings or documents the user has created since
their new domain account was created.

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Hello Richard,

Thanks. That's what I tried to do. Still some PC's have failed to migrate
old profile and instead created new fresh profile. And I used the same old
user ID and password!
I agree, that overwriting profile may be a possible cause of errors and
should be avoided.

Robert



Richard G. Harper said:
If you join a domain using your own credentials (ID and password) your
settings and documents will be migrated, but if you use a different account
(say, the Administrator account) you'll wind up with two profiles -
<yourname> and <yourname>.<domainname> - and that's that.

You could try copying the old profile over the new one but that could tend
to cause problems with any settings or documents the user has created since
their new domain account was created.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
* for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to.
* My website, such as it is ... http://rgharper.mvps.org/
* HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


John Alborn said:
Hello,

Windows 2000SP4. At my workplace I'm trying to join users from local
workgroup to local domain.
I enabled option Member of Domain. (My Computer, System Properties,
Network
Identification, Properties)
and entered domain and user name as it appears on SBS 2003 Active
directory
user name list. I received the domain welcome message and restarted w2k
workstation. Now at workstation logon I entered the same user name as was
with earlier profile plus new strong doamin password.
Some PC's joined the domain using the same earlier user profile (including
desktop, installed applications etc) while some PC's created the new
profile
adding local to the user name and loosing all previous settings. Weird as
all PC's have the same configuration!

Where to find instructions, how to join the local domain using old
existing
administrative user profile without creating new fresh profile?

All these w2k workstations have Administrative accounts renamed by user
name, until now without password, while new domain accounts have new
strong
passwords.

I hope anyone can help to solve this issue.

Robert
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