Migrating user to new domain loses local profile

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From: David Naigles (david.naigles_at_lansa.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:36:41 -0500

When I migrate a user to a new domain and have him logon to his local
machine, he receives an error stating the a temporary local profile will be
used due to security issues or a corrupted local profile. I performed the
following.

1. I logged on and off as the newdomain\user.
2. while logged on as localmachine\administrator I added newdomain\user to
local group Administrators .
3. I changed the ProfilePath for the newdomin\user's SID to point to the
olddomain\user's local profile.
4. I logged on as the newdomain\user.

What did I do wrong.

David Naigles

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