Migration of XP Profiles

From: JonR (jonr451_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:11:03 -0800

I invite you to submit your comments on this issue. When an XP user moves
from a workgroup to a domain, the operating system generates a new user
profile based on the Default User profile. Let's take a user "jonr" who has
logged on to his workstation for 3 years and has quite a sizable investment
of files, settings, Favorites, mailbox settings, etc. His computer is now
going to be joined to a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain. What is your
opinion of the Best Practice solution to change this machines' domain status,
minimize the disruption of the users' settings/configurations, and minimize
the amount of time IT staff will need to invest in manually copying data from
the user's old profile (localcomputer/jonr) to the user's new profile
(domain/jonr)?
Is there a simpler way I've missed?
Thanks for your input! Jon
jonr451 at hotmail dot com

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