Broken RAID-5

Hello, I recently had a 2008 SBE server die a horrid death... system locked
up and found 1 of the disks was not working, and the raid controller failed
to trip over and start a repair, did that manually, well.. that's when the
hot spare died... yea... so after hours of trying to get the array back
up and going.. I was informed by intel that the built in raid controller on
my S5000VSA board w/ the AXXRAKSW5 activation key, was a "software" based
RAID controller and did not have the features needed to fix the array..

Long story short.. I'm reinstalling the server and resetting everything up..
I'm wondering if when I go around and re-add people's PCs to the domain, if
I have users and passwords the same, will I need to reset up everyone's
profiles? (IE copy their desktops, fav's, and emails) or will the PC use the
same profile as the old domain?

Hello Drew,

If the domain is rebuild complete from zero, even if using the same domain
name, all preconfigured user/computer/group accounts are using different
SIDs.

So all of them have to be rebuild and the computers must be joined to the
new domain.

All local computer profiles will then become inaccessible for them and new
ones are created. A local administrator will be able to access them and copy
needed data to the new one or the user should save there data to external
drives.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Hello, I recently had a 2008 SBE server die a horrid death... system
> locked up and found 1 of the disks was not working, and the raid
> controller failed to trip over and start a repair, did that manually,
> well.. that's when the hot spare died... yea... so after hours of
> trying to get the array back up and going.. I was informed by intel
> that the built in raid controller on my S5000VSA board w/ the
> AXXRAKSW5 activation key, was a "software" based RAID controller and
> did not have the features needed to fix the array..
>
> Long story short.. I'm reinstalling the server and resetting
> everything up.. I'm wondering if when I go around and re-add people's
> PCs to the domain, if I have users and passwords the same, will I need
> to reset up everyone's profiles? (IE copy their desktops, fav's, and
> emails) or will the PC use the same profile as the old domain?
>

can I cheat and rename the old profile(s), log in and have it make the
profile, and then reboot the pc, and log in as an admin and rename the old
profile back??

IE
old user name "billing" old profile "C:\Documents and settings\Billing"
rename that to billing-1 logged in as an administrator, log in, and have it
make the new "C:\Documents and settings\Billing" profile, reboot, log in as
an admin and rename the new billing to billing-2 and rename the old
billing-1 back to billing? will that work?

"Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]" <meiweb@(nospam)gmx.de> wrote in message
news:. com...
> Hello Drew,
>
> If the domain is rebuild complete from zero, even if using the same domain
> name, all preconfigured user/computer/group accounts are using different
> SIDs.
>
> So all of them have to be rebuild and the computers must be joined to the
> new domain.
>
> All local computer profiles will then become inaccessible for them and new
> ones are created. A local administrator will be able to access them and
> copy needed data to the new one or the user should save there data to
> external drives.
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>
>> Hello, I recently had a 2008 SBE server die a horrid death... system
>> locked up and found 1 of the disks was not working, and the raid
>> controller failed to trip over and start a repair, did that manually,
>> well.. that's when the hot spare died... yea... so after hours of
>> trying to get the array back up and going.. I was informed by intel
>> that the built in raid controller on my S5000VSA board w/ the
>> AXXRAKSW5 activation key, was a "software" based RAID controller and
>> did not have the features needed to fix the array..
>>
>> Long story short.. I'm reinstalling the server and resetting
>> everything up.. I'm wondering if when I go around and re-add people's
>> PCs to the domain, if I have users and passwords the same, will I need
>> to reset up everyone's profiles? (IE copy their desktops, fav's, and
>> emails) or will the PC use the same profile as the old domain?
>>
>
>

Hello Drew,

If you logon with the new created account in domain new, the profile will
be shown as billing.newdomain instead the exisiting one billing. If you rename
billing to billingold you should be able to see the folder billing again.
But this still requires a new setup of all desktop settings etc.

As said before you can copy the needed data between the profiles as administrator
but just renaming wouldn't grant access to the old folder data as far as
i know. Try it out on a test machine.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> can I cheat and rename the old profile(s), log in and have it make the
> profile, and then reboot the pc, and log in as an admin and rename the
> old profile back??
>
> IE
> old user name "billing" old profile "C:\Documents and
> settings\Billing"
> rename that to billing-1 logged in as an administrator, log in, and
> have it
> make the new "C:\Documents and settings\Billing" profile, reboot, log
> in as
> an admin and rename the new billing to billing-2 and rename the old
> billing-1 back to billing? will that work?
> "Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]" <meiweb@(nospam)gmx.de> wrote in message
> news:. com...
>
>> Hello Drew,
>>
>> If the domain is rebuild complete from zero, even if using the same
>> domain name, all preconfigured user/computer/group accounts are using
>> different SIDs.
>>
>> So all of them have to be rebuild and the computers must be joined to
>> the new domain.
>>
>> All local computer profiles will then become inaccessible for them
>> and new ones are created. A local administrator will be able to
>> access them and copy needed data to the new one or the user should
>> save there data to external drives.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Meinolf Weber
>> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
>> confers no rights.
>> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
>> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>>> Hello, I recently had a 2008 SBE server die a horrid death... system
>>> locked up and found 1 of the disks was not working, and the raid
>>> controller failed to trip over and start a repair, did that
>>> manually, well.. that's when the hot spare died... yea... so
>>> after hours of trying to get the array back up and going.. I was
>>> informed by intel that the built in raid controller on my S5000VSA
>>> board w/ the AXXRAKSW5 activation key, was a "software" based RAID
>>> controller and did not have the features needed to fix the array..
>>>
>>> Long story short.. I'm reinstalling the server and resetting
>>> everything up.. I'm wondering if when I go around and re-add
>>> people's PCs to the domain, if I have users and passwords the same,
>>> will I need to reset up everyone's profiles? (IE copy their
>>> desktops, fav's, and emails) or will the PC use the same profile as
>>> the old domain?
>>>

I'll give it a shot.. not really looking forward to doing this on all 40
some PCs...

Thanks for the help/advice Meinolf and Yodaqs

"yodaqs" <> wrote in message
news:5faa74b8-0b61-4a25-ba6e-...
> On Dec 10, 12:09 am, "Drew Boillot" <d...@gocmcs.com> wrote:
>> can I cheat and rename the old profile(s), log in and have it make the
>> profile, and then reboot the pc, and log in as an admin and rename the
>> old
>> profile back??
>>
>> IE
>> old user name "billing" old profile "C:\Documents and settings\Billing"
>> rename that to billing-1 logged in as an administrator, log in, and have
>> it
>> make the new "C:\Documents and settings\Billing" profile, reboot, log in
>> as
>> an admin and rename the new billing to billing-2 and rename the old
>> billing-1 back to billing? will that work?
>>
>> "Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]" <meiweb@(nospam)gmx.de> wrote in
>> messagenews: rosoft.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hello Drew,
>>
>> > If the domain is rebuild complete from zero, even if using the same
>> > domain
>> > name, all preconfigured user/computer/group accounts are using
>> > different
>> > SIDs.
>>
>> > So all of them have to be rebuild and the computers must be joined to
>> > the
>> > new domain.
>>
>> > All local computer profiles will then become inaccessible for them and
>> > new
>> > ones are created. A local administrator will be able to access them and
>> > copy needed data to the new one or the user should save there data to
>> > external drives.
>>
>> > Best regards
>>
>> > Meinolf Weber
>> > Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
>> > confers no rights.
>> > ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
>> > ** HELP us help YOU!!!http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>>
>> >> Hello, I recently had a 2008 SBE server die a horrid death... system
>> >> locked up and found 1 of the disks was not working, and the raid
>> >> controller failed to trip over and start a repair, did that manually,
>> >> well.. that's when the hot spare died... yea... so after hours of
>> >> trying to get the array back up and going.. I was informed by intel
>> >> that the built in raid controller on my S5000VSA board w/ the
>> >> AXXRAKSW5 activation key, was a "software" based RAID controller and
>> >> did not have the features needed to fix the array..
>>
>> >> Long story short.. I'm reinstalling the server and resetting
>> >> everything up.. I'm wondering if when I go around and re-add people's
>> >> PCs to the domain, if I have users and passwords the same, will I need
>> >> to reset up everyone's profiles? (IE copy their desktops, fav's, and
>> >> emails) or will the PC use the same profile as the old domain?
>
> If you log in as administrator you should be able to go to system
> properties, advanced, user profiles, and use the Copy button to allow
> the new user to use the old profile. this will only work if the new
> user has not yet logged on, otherwise you will have to copy the
> profile elements to the new profile, or start from fresh.
>
> Please be aware that it becomes easy to get confused, so make backups
> if you are deleting profiles.
>
>
>