Migrating user settings from a win2k pc to another win2k PC

[Rhian]

We have a company of 40-50 people all working on Win2K
Pro and they will be staying on Win2K Pro

They are running on domain X at the moment on one set of
servers

We have some new servers which will be running on domain
Y shortly. We have added all the users on to Active
Directory on this new domain

What we wanted to do was to do some sort of file and
settings transfer backup (My docs/Internet
favourites/printers etc nothing complicated on their
desktops while logged into the old domain and then
retransfer these settings when we log them on to their
PC's on the new domain.

We tried the USMT but this didnt work when running
loadstate when one test user was logged into the new
domain.
Since found out this tool is only for migrating user
settings from say 95,98 to Win2k or XP i think, not
between the same operating system in this situation

Is there any tools available to do this as we have come
to a halt

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You can manually copy one profile to another profile while logged on as a local
administrator whose profile is not the source or target. The link below shows how to
do this and works the same for w2K just be sure to select the proper user account as
having permissions to the profile.

Another way would be to try using the Active Directory Migration tool but the target
domain must be in native mode. The current ADMT works well and has a test mode. The
links below may help. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/tools/admt/default.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/activedirectory/admt.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/deploy/cookbook/default.mspx

 

[Guest]

Thanks very much.
We are now using the ADMT!

You can manually copy one profile to another profile while logged on as a local
administrator whose profile is not the source or target. The link below shows how to
do this and works the same for w2K just be sure to select the proper user account as
having permissions to the profile.

Another way would be to try using the Active Directory Migration tool but the target
domain must be in native mode. The current ADMT works well and has a test mode. The
links below may help. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/tools/admt/default.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/activedirectory/admt.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/deploy/cookbook/default.mspx