Migrating to new domain

[Wowbagger]

I work in an office where the big bosses provide a server but we all have to
support our own boxes. On Friday they told us that there is a new server
with a new domain and that in three weeks the old server and accompanying
domain will be turned off and that we are on our own to reconfigure our
boxes (though they will graciously visit each of our machines to create a
new server account so we have access to the new hardware and domain).

I have three XP professional boxes that need migration from old_domain\user
to new_domain\user. What is the easiest and least painful way to accomplish
this? There are shortcuts, documents, favorites, .pst files and whatnot
that need to be switched over.

I have local admin access to all of the desktops.

Thanks

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

I work in an office where the big bosses provide a server but we all have to
support our own boxes. On Friday they told us that there is a new server
with a new domain and that in three weeks the old server and accompanying
domain will be turned off and that we are on our own to reconfigure our
boxes (though they will graciously visit each of our machines to create a
new server account so we have access to the new hardware and domain).

I have three XP professional boxes that need migration from old_domain\user
to new_domain\user. What is the easiest and least painful way to accomplish
this? There are shortcuts, documents, favorites, .pst files and whatnot
that need to be switched over.

Hi

We solve this type of user profile change by (in the registry) changing the
profile path for the new domain user to point to the old user's profile folder,
see article below.

From: Bruce Sanderson ([email protected])
Subject: Re: Moving a W2K PC between domains
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.general
Date: 2002-08-05 17:32:49 PST
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=uz48D$NPCHA.612@tkmsftngp08


If the user is not a local admin, you might need to to something on the
permission side. Use tip 4631 and 2240 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at
http://www.jsiinc.com as a guide.


More here as well:

Subject: Re: Lost profile when domain name changes
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.active_directory
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=262e40881c856d53


HOW TO: Restore a User Profile in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;314045