Win 98 to Win 2000 Upgrade

[kcan]

I am a consultant that came into a location after a Win
98 to Win 2000 upgrade was done on all client machines.
(BAD)

My job was to get a Win20003 Server up and running and
join all of the Win 2000 clients to the Domain. Prior to
this, the clients logged on locally to Windows/and a
Novell Network.

I was able to successfully join the clients to the
Domain. Upon doing that when you log into the Win 2000
client machine a new profile is created for the domain.
Prior profile was John Smith, now that the client has
joined the network John Smith.NEW DOMAIN profile is
created. Some applications do not like the . in the
profile. So I logged in as administrator, copied the
original John Smith Profile. C:\documents & Setting\John
Smith. to the C: drive for backup. This file in a
normal environment holds all the desktop icons, favorites
links, my documents, local settings, application data ,
etc. After moving the original John Smith to the C
drive, I then deleted John Smith & John Smith.NEW Domain.
Logged in as John Smith. Now I have a new John Smith
Profile. I then copied all of the files out of the
backup copy on the C drive of John Smith into the new
John Smith profile.

Here is the problem....no favorites, email data, etc. was
in the orginal/backup copy of John Smith. But on the
desktop there is still files that are not in C:\Documents
and Settings\John Smith\Desktop.

I know that the profiles, like desktop settings & files,
etc are still in the original Win 98 file location. The
bad news is that I did a search for all of the *.PST
files for email and cannot find any of the email data.

What are the file extensions for Outlook 98 data files??
Where do you think all of the profile information is
stored?? The computer had an extremely log list of
interet favorites saved, that I am not able to find.

Need help. I have to get to find these files.

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

If you deleted the profiles then they are probably gone. All the .pst files
are typicaly stored in the profiles of the user unless they made them
somewhere else. This issue of the profiles is standard and applications
should not care at all about the .domain name or anything. Typically
applications fail because of some settings that is stored in a profile and
thus when a new profile is created these settings are not there. You
typically have to manually copy all the favorites, desktop files, and .pst
files manually to the new profile or copy the profile and give the user full
control of this profile during the copy process. The default location
typically of the .pst files is C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. If you deleted these profiles
then your looking at restoring from backup. One thing to make sure is that
you are showing all hidden files and file extensions and many of these
things can be hidden but favorites and desktop files are not hidden. Also
you may find some things that you are seeing on the desktop in the Alll
Users folder or the Default User profile. Hope this helps. There are some
other ways to move profiles and simple google search should give you some
other options.