Re: SBS 2003 Rebuild: How to migrate domain, clients and user prof

If you can log on to the workstation with cached login then you can
see the users "old" profile. Clean up their temp items in IE and other
places. Use the File and Settings export wizard. If you do not have XP
I thnk you should be able to grab all the important stuff from their
old folder in the Documents and Settings. I suspect if you had a
joe.companydomain folder then you may have a joe.companydomain1 when
you get the machine connected to the new server. You need
administrator rights to get to those old folders.

David Wathen <DavidWathen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi Brandy,
>
>Thanks so much for your response.
>
>To clearify I performed a complete reinstall of SBS which included a
>reformat of the whole disk.
>
>I understand that the SID's will be different when the server/domain/users
>are recreated eventhough they are named the same.
>
>I'm right at the point of running the http://SBSServer/connnectcomputer on
>the client computer.
>
>- How can I retain all the settings/files/... on the client machines for the
>previous Domain/User? From what I understand this user and all of the
>settings/files/... under the "Documents and Settings" will be lost if I
>contiinue with http://SBSServer/connnectcomputer.
>
>Thanks so much,
>
> David
>
>""Brandy Nee [MSFT]"" wrote:
>
>> Hello David,
>>
>> Thank you for posting to the SBS Newsgroup.
>>
>> I understand that you got error message saying "lost the correct security
>> identifier (SID) when the domain was reconfigured". If I have misunderstood
>> your issue, please let me know.
>>
>> Due to lack of detail information, I need your help to gather following
>> information:
>>
>> 1. Please explain in detail how you "rebuild my SBS 2003 server". For
>> example:
>>
>> a. You performed a restoration of the SBS from a backup. OR
>>
>> b. You clean reinstalled the whole SBS. OR
>>
>> c. You joined the rebuilt Server to the previous Domain? OR
>>
>> d. Any other method? If yes, please state clearly.
>>
>> 2. Does this issue occur on all client workstations or several?
>>
>> 3. Is client experiencing log on issue? If yes, what is the exact error
>> message?
>>
>> 4. On the server and one of the problematic client workstations, run
>> "eventvwr" (without quotation marks), check whether there is any error. If
>> yes, double click it, click the Copy button and paste the full content to
>> the Newsgroup.
>>
>> ===========
>>
>> For your information:
>>
>> In a Domain environment, SID is used to identify different Objects such as
>> user and computer accounts. Though the new SBS server name and the Domain
>> name can be named the same, it is a different Domain which does not have
>> the SID information of the previous Domain, thus cannot recognize the
>> Objects in the previous Domain.
>>
>> I suggest that we can perform following steps on one problematic client
>> workstation and see whether it works.
>>
>> We can simply disjoin domain, rejoin domain, and check if the issue still
>> occurs. I would like to brief the main steps as the following.
>>
>> 1. Disjoin this workstation to a workgroup temporarily.
>>
>> 2. Delete the computer accounts from Active Directory Users and Computers
>> on the SBS Server. Make sure the client computer object for this client is
>> removed.
>>
>> 3. Run "Setup Client Computers" wizard to create a new client computer
>> account for this client
>>
>> 4. On this client workstation, please use http://SBSServer/connnectcomputer
>> to open the wizard and rejoin this workstation to the domain.
>>
>> 5. Follow the wizard and join this client to the domain
>>
>> 6. Test your issue again.
>>
>> If there is any further error message when you perform above steps, please
>> let me know the detailed information.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your time. if you have any updates, please feel free to
>> let me know. I am looking forward to your reply!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Brandy Nee
>>
>> Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support
>>
>> Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
>> ======================================================
>> This newsgroup only focuses on SBS technical issues. If you have issues
>> regarding other Microsoft products, you'd better post in the corresponding
>> newsgroups so that they can be resolved in an efficient and timely manner.
>> You can locate the newsgroup here:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx
>>
>> When opening a new thread via the web interface, we recommend you check the
>> "Notify me of replies" box to receive e-mail notifications when there are
>> any updates in your thread. When responding to posts via your newsreader,
>> please "Reply to Group" so that others may learn and benefit from your
>> issue.
>>
>> Microsoft engineers can only focus on one issue per thread. Although we
>> provide other information for your reference, we recommend you post
>> different incidents in different threads to keep the thread clean. In doing
>> so, it will ensure your issues are resolved in a timely manner.
>>
>> For urgent issues, you may want to contact Microsoft CSS directly. Please
>> check http://support.microsoft.com for regional support phone numbers.
>>
>> Any input or comments in this thread are highly appreciated.
>> ======================================================
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>>
>>
>>
>> --------------------
>> >Thread-Topic: SBS 2003 Rebuild: How to migrate domain, clients and user
>> profiles
>> >thread-index: AcX68IcwJbFB6HxFTViCTcBmaS0D1Q==
>> >X-WBNR-Posting-Host: 66.17.168.137
>> >From: =?Utf-8?B?RGF2aWQgV2F0aGVu?= <DavidWathen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >Subject: SBS 2003 Rebuild: How to migrate domain, clients and user profiles
>> >Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 21:39:02 -0800
>> >Lines: 15
>> >Message-ID: <17C21D9F-2B9E-493E-9173-ECF861375879@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >MIME-Version: 1.0
>> >Content-Type: text/plain;
>> > charset="Utf-8"
>> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>> >X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
>> >Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
>> >Importance: normal
>> >Priority: normal
>> >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.0
>> >Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
>> >NNTP-Posting-Host: TK2MSFTNGXA03.phx.gbl 10.40.2.250
>> >Path: TK2MSFTNGXA02.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGXA03.phx.gbl
>> >Xref: TK2MSFTNGXA02.phx.gbl microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs:228310
>> >X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
>> >
>> >I had to rebuild my SBS 2003 server so that I had a C: which was alot
>> bigger
>> >then the recommended 8GB.
>> >
>> >My domain name, client computer names and user names are all the same.
>> I've
>> >been getting error messages indicating that the computer lost the correct
>> >security identifier (SID) when the domain was reconfigured.
>> >
>> >Could someone PLEASE point me in the right direction on how I can safely
>> >join the new domain, add the client computers and migrate my user profiles
>> to
>> >the new domain.
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> > David
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
Jim B. SBS MVP
I don't have much to say but it can be found here
http://msmvps.com/bgb/
.