Hello everyone, I setup a new 2003 small business server and migrated all user/computer accounts (using ADMT 2.0) from the old server (small business server 4.5). New server is setup with a different domain name than the old one as specified by Microsoft documentation on migration. Problem I am facing is, when an user signs on to the server with their migrated account, it creates a new profile(ex: username.newdomain) on the workstation, loosing all their desktop icons, my documents, email settings etc… I was wondering if there is any way to use their original profile when they sign on? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks jti

What you have to understand is that the UID that the profile is recieving is differnt that the one it was receiving before. so even though it maybe the same ID the UID is differnt (SID) because this is a new server with a new name ie new domain. So the system will automatically create the new user profile. What you can do to fix this issue however, is one that must be scripted. You have to enable the new profile to have full access to the old profile and/ or copy the old profile over to the new one. you can complete this tasks by running any kix script of WSH script with the appropriate modifications.

Thanks for the tip. Signed in as Administrator and browsed to user profile, selected the old profile and did a "copy to" to the new profile. Everything from desktop icons to email settings was transfered. Thanks jti

Well that works fine for one machine, but you arent going to attempt to do that to every machine in you domain are you? That would take forever. Best to script the process and put it in your login script to run... or as a GPO.. Glad I was able to help though....