Migrating 30+ users from workgroup to domain

[TheDrake]

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?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

"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.

 

[TheDrake]

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.
>
>
>

 

[Kerry Brown]

"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/...cs/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

 

[Bruce Sanderson]

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?