Hello and thanks in advance for any help. We are migrating about 60 computers froma peer -to- peer to server 2003. We have created the accounts in AD and have made their folder shares on the server to move their data off of their local machines. The problem is: we added their PCs to the domain successfully and then logged in on their computer to create the folder on their machine. I then logged out and logged in as administrator and copied all of their files from their local HDD to their share on the server. Now when we log them back in to the server, their outlook will not start up at all and their word and excel always starts up asking for their name and initials. Their start menu is not displaing everything that it should either. If I go into the AD and add them as Domain Admins, then everything works fine, but not when they are only Domain users?????? Please help. Thanks John

Did you copy the old profile to the new profile and allow permissions for the new account? Or are you using the Default User Profile? Suggestion: You may have to loosen up the permissions for the office install directories, including Application Data folder in their profile. Note: One suggestion, is to make their Domain account a local administrator, not Domain Admins...bad idea.

Thanks for the reply. I copied the old profile data to the newly created profile folder that was established with the first login of each user. I then set their permissions up so that the admin, the user, and system each had full control over his/her profile folder. I already tried changing the permissions on the application folder to full control for each user and that did not work either. If I set each user to local admin, wouldn't that give them rights over other folders that they should not be able to access? By local, do you mean administrator on the local machine? If so, our users log on directly to the domain, not the local machine. Thanks again for the advice. John