Re: Join computers to a new domain and keep roaming profiles and Outlook OSTs!

Or try this tool to do the profile job:

http://www.forensit.com/Profwiz/index.htm

Tested and it worked for me.


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Ambroise Nève <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Hi all,

Due to a server crash that lasted 1 week+,

Wow - no backups? That's an incredibly long outage.

I finally had to rebuild a
totally new SBS 2003 server. The new SBS 2003 has the same name, the
same IP and the same AD Domain than the previous one.

I would like to join my client computers to the new domain, what is
the easiest way to do so?
a. Log on to each of them, join them to any workgroup, reboot and
join to the domain again?
b. Use any other SBS tool?

Thanks for your help,

Ambroise

You will have to use a), but note that your user's profiles are not going
to simply follow along and become roaming profiles in the new domain. You
will probably want to:

1. Create a temporary local user account on each PC for the user - name it
clearly!
2. Log in as that temp local account, once
3. Log back in as an admin on the machine
4. Copy the profile for the soon-to-be-ex-domain user, to the new temp
local user (control panel, system, advanced....)
5. Log in again as the temp local user to make sure it gets the profile
settings you want

Then disjoin the old domain, and run connectcomputer on it to join the new
one, selecting the appropriate domain user and the temporary local account
so the profile will be migrated.

This is a pain, but generally works. Note that you will need to create a
new mail profile for each user, and if you were using cached mode before,
I'd delete the old OST file first just to be safe.



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