maintain user profiles when changing domain

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We have rebuilt our server to a new domain. How can we keep user profiles
with minimal interruption?

I found the "Copy To" user profile function in System Properties but I'm not
sure what exactly it copies over. Does it just copy over the users folders
such as My Documents, Favorites, Desktop, etc? Or, does it also copy over
settings like drive mappings and printer mappings and other settings? It is
important that the Outlook settings also copy over (along with Outlook rules).

Please help! We have a lot of PC's to migrate and manually copying over
profiles and then re-creating drive mappings and printers and other settings
is going to waste a lot of time. Thank you.
 
Logon once to the new domain then run regedt32.exe and navigate to;

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

locate the new profile SID and edit the Reg_Expand_Sz 'ProfileImagePath' to
point back to the old domain profile.



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When i tried your advice access was Denied to the old domain profile.




Dave Patrick said:
Logon once to the new domain then run regedt32.exe and navigate to;

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

locate the new profile SID and edit the Reg_Expand_Sz 'ProfileImagePath' to
point back to the old domain profile.



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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

JT in VN said:
We have rebuilt our server to a new domain. How can we keep user profiles
with minimal interruption?

I found the "Copy To" user profile function in System Properties but I'm
not
sure what exactly it copies over. Does it just copy over the users folders
such as My Documents, Favorites, Desktop, etc? Or, does it also copy over
settings like drive mappings and printer mappings and other settings? It
is
important that the Outlook settings also copy over (along with Outlook
rules).

Please help! We have a lot of PC's to migrate and manually copying over
profiles and then re-creating drive mappings and printers and other
settings
is going to waste a lot of time. Thank you.
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Also make sure each user has Full Control permissions on their user profile
folder.


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
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