Profile changes in WinXP...

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Jonathan Telep

Does anyone know how to keep the "domain user profile" the
exact same when changing domains? I had to reinstall AD
on my Win2K Server and now need to join all my users to
the new domain. I know that once I do this that all of
the XP Pro workstations will create a new profile for the
same user. What I would like to know is: Is there any
way to avoid this or make the transition, at least from
the "end user" standpoint, 'almost' transparent?
 
Not really. Those profiles are tied to GUID's that are tied to the domain
itself. A new Domain means a new GUID so the profile will never be found.
You can copy the profiles back over the new profile once the user logs into
the new domain but there is not easy way to make this 'transparent' unless
there is a 3rd party tool. More importantly why would you reinstall your
domain? You should always have at least 2 domain controllers so you can
avoid a reinstall in case of server failure.

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Scott Harding
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The reason for the reinstalls was because I named the AD
the wrong domain name so it couldn't dynamically update the
internal DNS servers records. I have sort of fixed this
and if the answer to the previous question is that it will,
indeed, take this long to do each workstation, that's fine,
it's just going to be a very long process.

I need to get AD uninstalled and reinstalled on that server
though and now have a new problem that's been caused by
trying to follow the MS Knowledge Base Article: 294328
(How to Reinstall a Dynamic DNS Active Directory -
Integrated Zone). In the first couple of steps I'm
supposed to go in the the %systemroot%\winnt\system32\DNS
folder and delete the text DNS Zones files. So I did, I
then began following the rest of the steps and quickly
realized that I didn't understand the rest of the
instructions, as a result, managed to screw the AD install
up even worse than it was before. In a fit of frustration
I created a new, default "forward lookup" zone file under
DNS and then rebooted the system thus allowing users who
still had their workstations pointing to that domain
controller access. The problem that I'm having now is that
I need to uninstall and then reinstall AD in order to give
it the right information (or rather replicate information
from another domain controller that I've set up to start
building the new domain) and it won't let me. Whenever I
run "dcpromo" now I get to the point where it begins
"Configuring Active Directory" and it then fails saying:

Failed finding a suitable domain controller for the domain

"The specified domain either does not exist or could not be
contacted."

How do I fix this?

Jon
 
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