Profile problem while doing migration

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Elton Seng Yan Thung

Dear all,
We are in the process of migrating from NT4 to 2k domain. We have
started from a new 2k domain instead of upgrade the existing one. Most of
the Client PC in our company are Win2k and XP. The profile of the user are
created in defualt location.
When user login to new domain, their client PC will consider him\her as
a new user. Thus a new profile will be created to use. We have to do a
profile copying for every user in order to access the same environment as
previous. Since the user pool is huge and some users have huge data in thier
profile and this job became very time consuming.
We wish to find a solution of pointing the new profile to the old
profile instead of creating a new one and copy the old one over. Can someone
guide us?

thanks
 
You are supposed to use the Active Directory Migration Tool. Hunt it down
on MS's site and also do a lot of reading on migration in this
situation,...there is a lot to deal with and a lot that will bit you in the
rear-end if you aren't careful. The are a lot of different
scenarios,...*don't* pick the wrong one. Hopefully you have not messed it
up at this point to where the ADMT won't help.
 
Thanks man, I never think of the tools. I thought it is only useful when we
are doing domain to domain migration. We already have the new domain built
out with all the userid created. User have to change the domain name when
doing login and that is all. But the problem is we need to copy the profile
in the client PC from
c:\document and setting\userid.olddomain to c:\document and
setting\userid.newdomain. The process is rather time consuming. Is there a
way to change the pointing to the old profile? You think ADMT helps in this
problem?
thanks
Phillip Windell said:
You are supposed to use the Active Directory Migration Tool. Hunt it down
on MS's site and also do a lot of reading on migration in this
situation,...there is a lot to deal with and a lot that will bit you in the
rear-end if you aren't careful. The are a lot of different
scenarios,...*don't* pick the wrong one. Hopefully you have not messed it
up at this point to where the ADMT won't help.


--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


Elton Seng Yan Thung said:
Dear all,
We are in the process of migrating from NT4 to 2k domain. We have
started from a new 2k domain instead of upgrade the existing one. Most of
the Client PC in our company are Win2k and XP. The profile of the user are
created in defualt location.
When user login to new domain, their client PC will consider him\her as
a new user. Thus a new profile will be created to use. We have to do a
profile copying for every user in order to access the same environment as
previous. Since the user pool is huge and some users have huge data in thier
profile and this job became very time consuming.
We wish to find a solution of pointing the new profile to the old
profile instead of creating a new one and copy the old one over. Can someone
guide us?

thanks
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You said "new domain",...I thought you were migrating from domain to domain.

As far as a tool to move the profiles in this situation, there may be some,
but I am not aware of any specific one.

--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


Elton Seng Yan Thung said:
Thanks man, I never think of the tools. I thought it is only useful when we
are doing domain to domain migration. We already have the new domain built
out with all the userid created. User have to change the domain name when
doing login and that is all. But the problem is we need to copy the profile
in the client PC from
c:\document and setting\userid.olddomain to c:\document and
setting\userid.newdomain. The process is rather time consuming. Is there a
way to change the pointing to the old profile? You think ADMT helps in this
problem?
thanks
Phillip Windell said:
You are supposed to use the Active Directory Migration Tool. Hunt it down
on MS's site and also do a lot of reading on migration in this
situation,...there is a lot to deal with and a lot that will bit you in the
rear-end if you aren't careful. The are a lot of different
scenarios,...*don't* pick the wrong one. Hopefully you have not messed it
up at this point to where the ADMT won't help.


--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


Elton Seng Yan Thung said:
Dear all,
We are in the process of migrating from NT4 to 2k domain. We have
started from a new 2k domain instead of upgrade the existing one. Most of
the Client PC in our company are Win2k and XP. The profile of the user are
created in defualt location.
When user login to new domain, their client PC will consider
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him\her
as
a new user. Thus a new profile will be created to use. We have to do a
profile copying for every user in order to access the same environment as
previous. Since the user pool is huge and some users have huge data in thier
profile and this job became very time consuming.
We wish to find a solution of pointing the new profile to the old
profile instead of creating a new one and copy the old one over. Can someone
guide us?

thanks
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