Re: Preserving Win XP User Settings when joining a Win2000 Domain

From: Doug Sherman [MVP] (dsherman_at_nospam.tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:06:58 -0400

Yes, right click My Computer and select Properties. Click the Advanced tab
and under User Profiles click the Settings button. Highlight your old
profile and click the Copy to button. Navigate to the new profile. Be sure
to click the Change button under Permitted to use.

Note, if your old user account was a member of the local Administrators
group, that does not mean that your new domain account will also be a
member. Only domain administrators group members are automatically added to
the local Administrators group. You can add your domain user account to the
local Administrators group by logging on as a domain administrator and using
the Computer Management console.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Rafael" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0a5601c47afb$06ad30d0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I just joined my WIn XP desktop to a domain served by a
> computer running Windows 2000 and logged in using a new
> user account I created in Active Directory.
>
> Unfortunately, in doing so, I've lost all access to all
> the files in the My Documents folder, all bookmarks in
> IE, my Outlook email account, etc.
>
> Is there any thing I can do to "migrate" all that stuff
> over to my new user account?
>
> Rafael