Can User Profile keep in local workstation?

[Wilson Cheung]

I am new in Active Directory. I recently promoted a Windows 2000 server to
domain controller. Everyone in office who has their profile in their own
workstation. Now, they need to login to the domain controller. Can they keep
their profile on their PC, but not in server? If yes, how can I work on
this? Thanks!!

 

[Tomasz Onyszko]

I am new in Active Directory. I recently promoted a Windows 2000 server to
domain controller. Everyone in office who has their profile in their own
workstation. Now, they need to login to the domain controller. Can they keep
their profile on their PC, but not in server? If yes, how can I work on
this? Thanks!!

Of course they can - but the profile will be different on each
workstation. With roaming profiles Your users can log on to any
workstation and get their own profile.

IF You want to preserve local user profiles simply don't set anything in
the user profile apth and they will get their local profile after logon.
However - this will be new, clear default user profile becouse user from
the domain has different SID then locall user - If You want to give them
their old local profiles, after the user will log on with it domain user
name and then log off- You will have to log on as and Administrator to
this workstation and copy local profile to the domain user profile.

 

[Wilson Cheung]

Therefore, there is no way to use their old local profile (keep on their pc)
after they login to the domain controller?

Wilson

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Presuming you mean, how can I migrate my *local workstation account*
profiles to my new *domain account* profile...

You need to copy the profiles in Windows while logged in with admin rights.
Control panel, system, ....

See http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;142682 for W2k clients and
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314478 if you have
WinXp clients.