RE: Move XP machines to new domain preserving home dirs?

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Hi ,

For your situation, my suggest you follow the steps as below:

1. Log in to the client as local administrator, manually disjoin domain.
In Control Panel, double-click System. On the Computer Name tab, click
Change, select Workgroup, type a temporary workgroup name and click OK.
You'll be prompted to enter the domain admin's credential. Enter the
credential, click OK, wait a while and you'll see a dialog box with the
message "Welcome to the xxx Workgroup". Restart the computer as prompted.

2. Join into new domain.

3. Copy the Home folder to the new place.

Please understand even domain name is the same, user name is the same, the
Home folder will be recreated because the domain SID and user SID are all
changed. Therefore, we are unable to retain the same folder.

Thanks.



Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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From: "Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.migration
Subject: Move XP machines to new domain preserving home dirs?
Date: 27 Sep 2006 12:51:23 -0700
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All -

I have a very small client who runs Windows 2003 server on one machine,

and XP on another machine, in an AD domain model. The server is used
as a
workstation, and is configured with AdAware, Spybot S&D, and McAfee,
updated every night.

The owner of the company opened a web site which murdered the server
with malware. I had the machine set up with mirrored drives, but in
this
case, it obviously didn't help.

We've got good backups on an external drive of all the apps and data,
but nothing on the actual Active Directory domain. My fault, he didn't

want to spend the money on a tape drive and I should have been more
insistent.

I've got the server rebuilt with the same domain name, but obviously
this doesn't help a whole lot. Is there an easy way to re-join the XP
workstation to the domain, keeping home directories the same?

I am looking at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=249694 and it seems
that I can create a machine account on the DC, then run:

netdom reset Destination computer /domain:domain_name usero:admin_user
/passwordo:admin_user_password

to get the XP client re-attached to the domain. Is this correct? Will

the users still have their same home directories when they log in?

Any advice greatly appreciated. If there is a better way, I am all
ears.

--
Thomas



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