Guest JT in VN Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 We have rebuilt our server to a new domain. How can we keep user profiles with minimal interruption? I found the "Copy To" user profile function in System Properties but I'm not sure what exactly it copies over. Does it just copy over the users folders such as My Documents, Favorites, Desktop, etc? Or, does it also copy over settings like drive mappings and printer mappings and other settings? It is important that the Outlook settings also copy over (along with Outlook rules). Please help! We have a lot of PC's to migrate and manually copying over profiles and then re-creating drive mappings and printers and other settings is going to waste a lot of time. Thank you.
Guest Dave Patrick Posted November 23, 2007 Posted November 23, 2007 Re: maintain user profiles when changing domain Logon once to the new domain then run regedt32.exe and navigate to; HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList locate the new profile SID and edit the Reg_Expand_Sz 'ProfileImagePath' to point back to the old domain profile. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "JT in VN" wrote: > We have rebuilt our server to a new domain. How can we keep user profiles > with minimal interruption? > > I found the "Copy To" user profile function in System Properties but I'm > not > sure what exactly it copies over. Does it just copy over the users folders > such as My Documents, Favorites, Desktop, etc? Or, does it also copy over > settings like drive mappings and printer mappings and other settings? It > is > important that the Outlook settings also copy over (along with Outlook > rules). > > Please help! We have a lot of PC's to migrate and manually copying over > profiles and then re-creating drive mappings and printers and other > settings > is going to waste a lot of time. Thank you. >
Guest Dave Patrick Posted November 23, 2007 Posted November 23, 2007 Re: maintain user profiles when changing domain Also take a look at; http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4AF2D2C9-F16C-4C52-A203-8DAF944DD555&displaylang=en -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect
Guest JT in VN Posted November 23, 2007 Posted November 23, 2007 Re: maintain user profiles when changing domain When i tried your advice access was Denied to the old domain profile. "Dave Patrick" wrote: > Logon once to the new domain then run regedt32.exe and navigate to; > > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList > > locate the new profile SID and edit the Reg_Expand_Sz 'ProfileImagePath' to > point back to the old domain profile. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. > Microsoft Certified Professional > Microsoft MVP [Windows] > http://www.microsoft.com/protect > > "JT in VN" wrote: > > We have rebuilt our server to a new domain. How can we keep user profiles > > with minimal interruption? > > > > I found the "Copy To" user profile function in System Properties but I'm > > not > > sure what exactly it copies over. Does it just copy over the users folders > > such as My Documents, Favorites, Desktop, etc? Or, does it also copy over > > settings like drive mappings and printer mappings and other settings? It > > is > > important that the Outlook settings also copy over (along with Outlook > > rules). > > > > Please help! We have a lot of PC's to migrate and manually copying over > > profiles and then re-creating drive mappings and printers and other > > settings > > is going to waste a lot of time. Thank you. > > >
Guest Dave Patrick Posted November 23, 2007 Posted November 23, 2007 Re: maintain user profiles when changing domain For registry editing of HKLM? Who's logged on? You'll need to be local admin. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect "JT in VN" wrote: > When i tried your advice access was Denied to the old domain profile.
Guest Dave Patrick Posted November 23, 2007 Posted November 23, 2007 Re: maintain user profiles when changing domain Also make sure each user has Full Control permissions on their user profile folder. -- Regards, Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows] http://www.microsoft.com/protect
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