NT > SBS account transfer not working!

Crina Li (MSFT) wrote: 
Hi Carbon,

Thank you for posting in SBS newsgroup.

It seems that you are migrating from a NT 4 server to SBS 2003. Actually if you follow the process in the following white paper you do not need to migrate the user profile:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/f/a/6fa5ebc5-5a0f-4990-8833-ed24f4d
a4289/SBS_MigratingSBS45.doc

If you do not use ADMT to transfer user accounts, you have to migrate the desktop profiles manually. You should do the following steps to migrate the user profiles on the desktops:

1. Join a client computer into the new SBS 2003 domain.

2. Log on the computer using the account created in the new SBS 2003 domain. You should have a new folder is created in the C:\Document and Settings folder.

3. Log off and then log on the computer using its built-in local Administrator account.

4. Go to Control Panel, double click the System icon and select User Profiles.

5. Select the original user profile and click the Copy to button.

6. Click the Browse button.

7. Browse to the C:\Documents and Settings folder, and then click the user name folder which is newly created when you log on with the new user account.

8. Click the Change button, select Permitted to use, and then specify the new account.

9. Click OK three times to close all dialog boxes.

Please do not hesitate to let me know if you have any further concerns.

I tried to do as you suggested but it didn't work. I joined the computer to the new domain and logged in as local administrator to copy the user from the old domain to the new one, but the old user data was listed as Account Unknown, and the Copy_To button was greyed out.

I rejoined the old NT domain and the account was properly identified but I was not able to select the new domain to copy the files to.

I tried manually copying all the files and redoing all the permissions but I couldn't get that to work properly either. Surely there must be some way to copy the user in the old NT domain to the new SBS domain! Please help!!

There is about 3GB of user data in the old account that we really need to be able to get at as a member of the new domain.
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