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Guest Ron Hinds
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I just added a Windows Server 2003 domain to my network. I then joined my XP

Pro SP2 system to the domain. I want to move all of the settings of my

original, local user profile to my new, domain user profile. But when I go

to the My Computer | System Properties | Advanced | User Profiles and try to

copy one profile to the other, it says that I must first delete everything

from that folder (Documents and Settings\User.Domain). However, I am unable

to delete everything from that folder due to sharing violations. It doesn't

matter if I logon as the original user, the new user, the local

Administrator, or the Domain Administrator. Is this just not possible, and

if not, why was the option included?

 

As a side note, I tried to just XCOPY the files - now in User Profiles it

says the old profile is twice as large as it was ;-(

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Guest Andrew E.
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RE: Move local user profile to network user profile

 

Run the file transfer wizard from the xp cd,select the files/folders,etc to

save,

save to a new folder that you created,once thru,move to cd...

 

"Ron Hinds" wrote:

> I just added a Windows Server 2003 domain to my network. I then joined my XP

> Pro SP2 system to the domain. I want to move all of the settings of my

> original, local user profile to my new, domain user profile. But when I go

> to the My Computer | System Properties | Advanced | User Profiles and try to

> copy one profile to the other, it says that I must first delete everything

> from that folder (Documents and Settings\User.Domain). However, I am unable

> to delete everything from that folder due to sharing violations. It doesn't

> matter if I logon as the original user, the new user, the local

> Administrator, or the Domain Administrator. Is this just not possible, and

> if not, why was the option included?

>

> As a side note, I tried to just XCOPY the files - now in User Profiles it

> says the old profile is twice as large as it was ;-(

>

>

>

>

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Guest Nigel Den
Posted

RE: Move local user profile to network user profile

 

I have done this one myself migrating a company running Novel across to AD

there is a third party software that can be used which does the job

fantastically you can find it here http://www.forensit.com/shop/index.aspx

 

"Ron Hinds" wrote:

> I just added a Windows Server 2003 domain to my network. I then joined my XP

> Pro SP2 system to the domain. I want to move all of the settings of my

> original, local user profile to my new, domain user profile. But when I go

> to the My Computer | System Properties | Advanced | User Profiles and try to

> copy one profile to the other, it says that I must first delete everything

> from that folder (Documents and Settings\User.Domain). However, I am unable

> to delete everything from that folder due to sharing violations. It doesn't

> matter if I logon as the original user, the new user, the local

> Administrator, or the Domain Administrator. Is this just not possible, and

> if not, why was the option included?

>

> As a side note, I tried to just XCOPY the files - now in User Profiles it

> says the old profile is twice as large as it was ;-(

>

>

>

>


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