I have a Vista laptop which I want to move from one SBS 2003 server to another SBS 2003 server. I want to make sure that the user profile is kept if at all possible.
In the Workstatiosn Forum I found refernece to doing this using XP computers:
12/04/2005 09:03 AM Quote Reply Alert
Better than using the File Transfer wizard is to do the following.
14. Migrate User settings by doing the following on each computer:
a) On the client computer, create a new local user account using the Local Users and Groups MMC snap-in (accessible via the Computer Management snap-in) and add the account to the local Administrators group (you can make the local group memberships more appropriate after joining the domain.
b) Log on with the new local user account.
c) Open the System tool in Control Panel, click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings in the User Profiles section.
d) Select the domain account you want to migrate, click Copy To, and in the Copy To Profile box, type the path to a suitable folder on the hard drive ( most likely a subfolder of the C:\Documents and Settings folder).
e) Click Change, click Locations, select the local computer in the Locations dialog box, and then click OK. This returns you to the Select User or Group dialog box.
f) Type the name of the local user account you created and then click ok. Click ok again twice to finish copying the profile.
g) Open the Local Users and Groups snap-in, double click the local user account you created, click the Profile tab, and then type the location of the folder to which you copied the profile in the Profile Path box, Click ok when you’re finished.
h) Open the System tool in the Control Panel, click the Computer Name tab, and then click Change (on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 computers). On Windows 2000 Computers, click the Network Identification tab and then click Properties.
i) Select Workgroup, type a workgroup name (Workgroup is always popular), and then click ok. Reboot the computer when prompted, log on using the newly minted local user account, and then use the Network Configuration Wizard to join the domain and migrate the new local user account, which now stores the settings of the domain account you want to migrate.
Shane
P.S. This gives you more of your settings than the Transfer File Wizard
This was submitted by Shane Edde way back in 2005, so I assume that things have moved on a bit since then. However if they have I hvent found anything like this forVista so am wondering how it works now.
In Vista I can only see my logged in profile....
Am I making mountains out of molehills here? Is there another methodology I need to use?
Regards
Jeff
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