Guest TheDrake Posted July 28, 2007 Posted July 28, 2007 We are planning on upgrading to a server based LAN and need to get all our users on the domain. Is there any way we can retain the current Windows XP user and keep documents and other profile settings?
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 28, 2007 Posted July 28, 2007 Re: Migrating 30+ users from workgroup to domain "TheDrake" <TheDrake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:45708C71-FFB5-4FA2-9B09-1C5A1068D7A3@microsoft.com... > We are planning on upgrading to a server based LAN and need to get all our > users on the domain. > Is there any way we can retain the current Windows XP user and keep > documents and other profile settings? Try this "substitution racket". It assumes that the user's logon name is JDoe. 1. Join his machine to the domain. 2. Get him to log on to the domain. 3. Reboot the machine. 4. Log on as administrator. 5. Rename the new profile folder (which is likely to be JDoe.DomainName) to JDoe.new. 6. Rename the old profile folder to JDoe.DomainName. 7. Make sure that the domain account for JDoe has full access to JDoe.DomainName. 8. Ask JDoe to log on to the domain.
Guest TheDrake Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Re: Migrating 30+ users from workgroup to domain Thanks for the advice - I was rather hoping I could get the profile to remain without having the .domain extension. Am I being too optomistic? "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > > "TheDrake" <TheDrake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:45708C71-FFB5-4FA2-9B09-1C5A1068D7A3@microsoft.com... > > We are planning on upgrading to a server based LAN and need to get all our > > users on the domain. > > Is there any way we can retain the current Windows XP user and keep > > documents and other profile settings? > > Try this "substitution racket". It assumes that the user's logon name is > JDoe. > 1. Join his machine to the domain. > 2. Get him to log on to the domain. > 3. Reboot the machine. > 4. Log on as administrator. > 5. Rename the new profile folder (which is likely to > be JDoe.DomainName) to JDoe.new. > 6. Rename the old profile folder to JDoe.DomainName. > 7. Make sure that the domain account for JDoe has full > access to JDoe.DomainName. > 8. Ask JDoe to log on to the domain. > > >
Guest Kerry Brown Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Re: Migrating 30+ users from workgroup to domain "TheDrake" <TheDrake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:45708C71-FFB5-4FA2-9B09-1C5A1068D7A3@microsoft.com... > We are planning on upgrading to a server based LAN and need to get all our > users on the domain. > Is there any way we can retain the current Windows XP user and keep > documents and other profile settings? Use Small Business Server 2003. It has a built in wizard that does this when you join the computer to the domain. Failing that there are some other options. 1. F.A.S.T http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457074.aspx 2. Copy the old profile to the new one after you've created the new one. http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sysdm_userprofile_copy.mspx?mfr=true http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811151 3. Edit the registry. (I've seen this cause have intermittent results because of NTFS permissions). http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic55713.html -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca
Guest Bruce Sanderson Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Re: Migrating 30+ users from workgroup to domain Another way is to modify the ProfileImagePath Value in the registry entry for the domain user account on the workstation. 1. have the user logon with their domain user account, then logoff - this will create a key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList for that user's SID 2. logon with an administrative user account, open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList 3. click on each key in turn until you find the one for the user's domain account - the one in which the ProfileImagePath Value has the path to the user's new profile folder 4. change the ProfileImagePath Value to have the path for the user's old profile folder We used this technique when switching from a NT 4 domains to Windows 2000 Active Directory. -- Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question. "TheDrake" <TheDrake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:45708C71-FFB5-4FA2-9B09-1C5A1068D7A3@microsoft.com... > We are planning on upgrading to a server based LAN and need to get all our > users on the domain. > Is there any way we can retain the current Windows XP user and keep > documents and other profile settings?
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