Re: How to reset winxp client profiles

Hi Lyj,

Thanks for posting here! Also thanks for Gregg's great input!

I am sorry for the delayed response due to weekend. Please understand that
the newsgroups are staffed weekdays by Microsoft Support professionals to
answer your systems and applications questions. Your understanding is
greatly appreciated!

Gregg's answer is accurate. When you reinstall SBS server, the domain SIDs
will be different although they have the same domain name or computer name.
You need setup network environment again by removing the workstations from
the old domain, and then join them to the new domain.

If you want to make user profiles in old domain available in the new
domain, you can do follow 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.

And also you can use many steps of the migration white paper to migrate
data such as AD (user account, groups, group policy and so on), mailboxes
and user settings, SQL database and so on.

Backing Up and Restoring Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyIDH7736f8-f6f5-436d-a8
2d-0c8d66e2a634&DisplayLang=en

Hope above information helps! If you have any further concern or question
about the issue, please feel free to let me know. I am looking forward to
you!

Have a nice day!

Best Regards,

Jenny Wu
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>Reply-To: "Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>From: "Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: Re: How to reset winxp client profiles
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>Just to add some clarification:
>
>1) "We set up the server with the same name and settings."
>That is irrelevant, since a new domain always gets new security
identifiers,
>regardless of its new name. Even with the same name and IP address of the
>old server, it is still a new domain with no members except the DC itself.
>
>2) "...have to set the passwords to the same old ones before the users can
>logon."
>That is because they need that password to log on to the locally cached
>profile from the old domain.
>
>3) "Sometimes it takes users several attempts before logging onto the
domain
>successfully."
>They are NOT logging onto the domain if you have not taken the computer
out
>of the old domain and then added it back into the new one. That is why you
>are getting multiple password prompts.
>
>4) "Also the client computers do not show up on the server."
>That is because they are not members of the new domain yet.
>
>
>
>
>"lyj_e1" <lyje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:1D3EA898-B217-42FD-8056-018BBBE2CCCD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hi,
>>
>> Our sbs2003 Premium died, so we decided to upgrade the dead hdds with new
>> ones and also do a fresh install of the os (backup did not work). We
setup
>> the server with the same name and settings. What I noticed on the winxp
>> pro
>> sp2 client pcs is that I have to set the passwords to the same old ones
>> before the users can logon. Sometimes it takes users several attempts
>> before
>> logging onto the domain successfully. Also the client computers do not
>> show
>> up on the server.
>>
>> I can remove the mail profiles on the client pcs but is there a way to
>> 'reset' the local client profiles so the 'new' server recognises the
>> client
>> pcs again?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Lyj
>
>
>

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