RE: NT > SBS account transfer not working!

Hi Carbon,

Thanks for your reply.

Would you please to help me to double confirm if you have followed the
white paper? If so, you do not need to migrate the user profile manually.
Based on the information you provided, it seems that you are manually
migrating the user profile on the workstations. If so, this should be a
client side user profile migration issue. If you would, please post this
question in the microsoft.public.windowsxp.newsgroup. The reason why we
recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of
respondents, and other partners who read the newsgroups regularly can
either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us.

Thanks for your understanding.

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| From: Carbon <nobrac@xxxxxxxxxxx>
| | Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
| Subject: NT > SBS account transfer not working!
| > 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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