Guest Mike Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Hi Is it possible to move user profile from one domain to another? Our company users have WindowsXP workstations joined into Win2000 domain. Since we're in a plan of impelemnting new Win2008 domain environment (new DC servers with new user/computer accounts) I'm wondering what is the simpliest way to re-join computer from old domain to a new one so that users will still have their profiles. Yes I know we can simply put computer out of a domain and join them to a new one and log-on with a new user account, but then we need to move all settings and data from old user profile to a new one. Can this be done more automatically? Thank you in advance. Regards,Miha
Guest Jorge Silva Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Re: How to move user profile from one domain to another Hi Check and read docutmentation for ADMT from MS. -- I hope that the information above helps you. Have a Nice day. Jorge Silva MCSE, MVP Directory Services
Guest Mike Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Re: How to move user profile from one domain to another Thanks, but AFAIK ADMT moves user accounts between domains. I want to acomplish the following: - all users running WinXP are joined into Win2000 domain like DomainA\user1 - install new DC, configure Win2008 domain(DomainB) and create new user accounts (username will be different from the one in DomainA) - re-join WinXP workstations from DomainA to DomainB - log-on to a new domain like DomainB\new_user_account so that DomainB\new_user_account will have the same settings and data as the old one from DomainA\user1.How can this be done? Reagrds,Miha "Jorge Silva" <jorgesilva_pt@hotmail.com> je napisal v sporocilo news:%23yfR714BJHA.1012@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl ... > Hi > Check and read docutmentation for ADMT from MS. > > -- > I hope that the information above helps you. > > > Have a Nice day. > > Jorge Silva > MCSE, MVP Directory Services
Guest Jorge Silva Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Re: How to move user profile from one domain to another -With ADMT you can migrate user accounts, profiles and workstations/servers. -IF you want ot create everything from scratch and then use the old profiles for the new accounts, you've the User State Migration Tool "USMT". You may check more info on this tool at MS website: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4AF2D2C9-F16C-4C52-A203-8DAF944DD555&displaylang=en -- I hope that the information above helps you. Have a Nice day. Jorge Silva MCSE, MVP Directory Services
Guest Mike Posted August 26, 2008 Posted August 26, 2008 Re: How to move user profile from one domain to another Thanks! USMT will be the right tool as you suggested. Regards,M "Jorge Silva" <jorgesilva_pt@hotmail.com> je napisal v sporocilo news:83D26E69-C3C2-4C56-B301-0CC4F0FF1A7D@microsoft.com ... > -With ADMT you can migrate user accounts, profiles and > workstations/servers. > -IF you want ot create everything from scratch and then use the old > profiles for the new accounts, you've the User State Migration Tool > "USMT". You may check more info on this tool at MS website: > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4AF2D2C9-F16C-4C52-A203-8DAF944DD555&displaylang=en > > -- > I hope that the information above helps you. > > > Have a Nice day. > > Jorge Silva > MCSE, MVP Directory Services
Guest Miha Posted August 27, 2008 Posted August 27, 2008 Re: How to move user profile from one domain to another Maybe this could help someone in a near future :-) 1.Log on to the computerA with an administrative account (Administrator) in domainA. Then run the following command: scanstate \\fileserver\migration\mystore /ue:*\* /ui:domainA\user1 /i:miguser.xml /i:migapp.xml /o 2.Remove the computerA from domainA. 3.After creating a new user "user1" in domainB and joining computerA to domainB, you should log onto computerA with an administrative account (Administrator) in domainB. 4.Run the following command on computerA: loadstate \\fileserver\migration\mystore /mu:domainA\user1:domainB\user1 /i:miguser.xml /i:migapp.xml 5.Log on to computerA with the new user account (e.g. domainB\user1), see it the user profile has been migrated successfully. With this method, you don't need to create trust between domainA and domainB. However, you need to create a new user domainB\user1 for domainA\user1. It works perfectly ! Regards,M "Mike" <miha.bernik@email.si> wrote in message news:%23EFvrY6BJHA.5196@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Thanks! USMT will be the right tool as you suggested. > Regards,M > "Jorge Silva" <jorgesilva_pt@hotmail.com> je napisal v sporocilo > news:83D26E69-C3C2-4C56-B301-0CC4F0FF1A7D@microsoft.com ... >> -With ADMT you can migrate user accounts, profiles and >> workstations/servers. >> -IF you want ot create everything from scratch and then use the old >> profiles for the new accounts, you've the User State Migration Tool >> "USMT". You may check more info on this tool at MS website: >> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4AF2D2C9-F16C-4C52-A203-8DAF944DD555&displaylang=en >> >> -- >> I hope that the information above helps you. >> >> >> Have a Nice day. >> >> Jorge Silva >> MCSE, MVP Directory Services > >
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