User Account (Profile) Transfer/copy to new domain

[Peter Parker]

I'm switching our users to a new 2003 domain from a NT 4.0 domain. I' trying
to keep their Profiles (desktop, outlook, my doc) setting the same. Is it
possible to copy/transfer this stuff easily? What I have now is user1 on
DOMAIN1 now and when I change his domain to DOMAIN2.LOCAL. It creates a new
folder under DOCS & SETTINGS user1.DOMAIN2. I have tried just coping the
contents from user1 to user1.DOMAIN2 with no luck. I get permission issues.
I then tried given permission and no luck. I even down loaded the
COPYPROFILE app from M$. It tells me by access name is wrong. I don't see
the accounts in the GUI version under settings.

Is the an easy way to do this or do I need to reconfigure each one from
scratch and then just copy the data from my docs & outlook PST to the
user1.DOMAIN2 folder? Trying to do this with the minimum amount of
inconvenience to the user. I don't think roaming profiles will work do to
the folder size some have been 3GB. I thought I read somewhere before about
recovering a corrupted profile and wonder if that would work. The only thing
I really want to change that user would know is the Domain they are one then
I can implement group policies from the 2003 server.

 

[Guest]

My guess is you haven't actually told the account where to get it's profile from in active directory.
each user has a path which can be pointed at a particular place to obtain the profile. If you create a new domain but don't point the users at the old profiles it will use a default one. It will always create a new local account because you are effectively signing in as someone else (i.e. user1.domainone.com is different to user1.domain2.com)

 

[Peter Parker]

Nope haven't told it to look at AD. Wouldn't that be Roaming Profile though
(I have to read more)? I can understand it making a new local account some
what (with pemission uses, etc). I would think the would be an easy what to
copy the user profile to a new machine which I could also use on the same
machine (not counting Roaming Profiles) manual.

My guess is you haven't actually told the account where to get it's

profile from in active directory.

each user has a path which can be pointed at a particular place to obtain

the profile. If you create a new domain but don't point the users at the old
profiles it will use a default one. It will always create a new local
account because you are effectively signing in as someone else (i.e.
user1.domainone.com is different to user1.domain2.com)