Re: active directory project

In news:OkrxTphkJHA.1336@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Phillip Windell <philwindell@xxxxxxxxxxx>, posted the following:

Yea, agreed. I don't like it either, but for 150 users or more, it's
the best you'll get. However for the 38 machines the poster has, I
don't think it's worth the time to configure it and get it working.
I can finish all 38 machines way before someone puts together a PRF
fully tested and ready to go.

I meant the "Computer Properties, Advanced, User Profiles",..Then
copy the old one to the new one after the user logs in once to create
the fresh empty profile.

Oh, thought you meant Outlook. That is tedious, too, especially if the machine's been used for years. Imagine all the stuff in the IE temp folders, app data folders, temp locations, etc. Pulling that all across. Sometimes it's more efficient to just start fresh!

Quick story - I had an acquisition I had to take care of in December. My 15 seat customer bought another 15 seat company, but the company they bought had no domain. They were in a workgroup, with an outsourced POP3 email solution, which all made it made it easier for the migration. In the beginning I was able to sit down and speak to the compny owner of my customer individually and together with the ex-owner of the company he was acquiring as to what to expect, features, bennies, etc, and incorporating them into the current infrastructure. I laid out the game plan on the whiteboard with phases. At first there was alot of resistance on the other company's end. To them it was culture shock. One of the kids working at the old company was their goto "IT" guy. To simplify it, I told them not to worry, expect additional features that will make your work easier, and that I will mentor and support them through the transition. I told them to expect to have new profiles on their machines. Things will be quite different. Their domain name MX will be changed to the Exchange server of the company acquiring them. Your profiles will be eliminated and you will start fresh, but I will be around for the first week to insure a smooth transition, making sure mapped drives work, their ERP worked, migrated data from their ERP into the acquiring company's ERP, mergred their PSTs into their new Exchange mailboxes, setup their iPhones, BB's and Windows Mobile units, laptops to use Outlook Anwhere, VPN setup, GPO controlled MY Doc Folder Redirection with Offline Folders, logon scripts and Windows Firewall, automated WSUS and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, as well as rename and assimilate their current two Windows 2003 servers (workgroup) into the domain, etc. Once done, they were amazed at all the features that were in place. They had no idea they could work from home just as if they were in the office, especially with their My Doc files, as well as all the features with Outlook, . It was a successful migration/acquisition. However, the IT kid was kind of desponded that he was no more than a Domain User now, but he kind of understood the new setup was over his head, and kind of impressed the way things worked.



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