RE: Best way - W2k Domain to W2k3 Domain - Keep user profiles

Hi,

Thanks for posting here!

For your description, I understand that you want to know how to keep user
profiles when you moved DC from Windows 2000 to SBS 2003. If I am off base,
please don't hesitate to let me know.

For your scenario, we recommend you do migration from Windows 2000 to SBS
2003. This is the best way to keep data including user profiles, mailboxes
and so on and reduce workload. You can refer to Microsoft white paper to do
migration:

Migrating from Small Business Server 2000 or Windows 2000 Server to Windows
Small Business Server 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fa187d1e-8218-4501-
9729-222bd8ebb64c&displaylang=en

Additionally if you want to do as your method, I also would like to give
your some suggestion to keep user profiles. You can follow the steps:

1. Copy the original domain user account profiles to a local user account
(any user name is ok) in every client computers. Detail steps:

a. Right-click My Computer and click Properties to open System Properties
page.
b. Click Advanced tab and click Settings in User profiles item to open user
profile page.
c. Click the original domain user account and click 'Copy To' button to
change the user profile location and permitted user account (choose a local
user account) and double click OK to finish the operation.

2. Add the client computer to the new domain and assign the new domain user
account to the computer and migrate the local user account in 1st step's
profile to it. You do this in http://servername/connectcomputer in client
computer.

Note: At this method you need not setup server use the same domain name and
user accounts.

Hope above information helps! If you have any further concern or question
about the issue, please feel free to let me know. I am always happy to be
of further assistance.

Have a nice day!

Best Regards,

Jenny Wu
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>I recently took my Windows 2k Server offline and wanted to install a new
PDC
>from scratch. I gave the Windows SBS 2k3 the same IP address and same
domain
>name.
>I also set-up all of the same user names and computer names I had been
>using. When I hooked it up and setup the DNS and DHCP and tried to connect
>the Workstations (Mostly WIN XP PRO) using the
http://server/connectcomputer
>site, it trashed the user profiles. Is there a way I can keep my user
>profiles intact when setting up SBS 2k3 without migrating from the old Win
2k
>Server. Luckily the old server had a registry problem which mysteriously
>fixed itself and I am able to use it for right now.
>I need to keep this simple as possible so I'm not lost in the translation.
I
>also have some CNC machines that connect to this Domain and must not lose
>their info. Sorry for long winded question but I sure would appreciate any
>help on this matter.
>Thanks in advance.
>
>

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