Re: ADMT & migrating computer local profiles

From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/22/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:04:12 -0500

In news:%23zQ%23M9$9DHA.2168@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
Jim Helfer <jhelfer@deleteallthis.wtwarch.com> posted their thoughts, then I
offered mine
>>
>> If I remember correctly, it would default to it. Need to select the
>> new one in the drop down list. DId the new domain show up in the
>> drop down list? Did you also run the security translator too?
>>
>
> Perhaps that's the part that I was missing. I'll try again.
>
>>
>>> What would be ideal is if the computer could be joined to the new
>>> domain and have a new user profile copied from the old one, and then
>>> when the user came in (on say, Monday morning). He would ready to
>>> log
>>> into the new domain. But maybe that's not what it's designed to do.
>>
>>
>> Basically that's what it does. I've performed a few migrations
>> without problems with this.
>>
>
> I've gotten to the point where it completes without errors, and the
> new domain appears in the the drop-down list, but not as the default.
> The PC is still joined to the old domain. It's no problem to change
> it,
> and the profile is reused correctly, but I must be doing something not
> quite right.

It won't default to the new domain, but rather show you the last one you
logged on to. You'll need to instruct your users to select the new domain.

>>
>> You would select what OU to migrate them to in the new domain in the
>> ADMT wizard. If you bypassed that screen, it would put them in the
>> default location, the Users container.
>>
>
>
> OK, in the Computer Migration wizrd, the default target OU _is_ the
> user folder. Went right over my head.
>

You must have passed right over that oage in the wizard... 

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Regards,
Ace
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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
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