Move workstations to new domain

I have some Windows XP & Vista workstations that I need to remove from a
windows 2003 SBS domain and join them to a new Windows 2008 SBS domain.
Is there an way to keep their existing user profile after I join the
workstions to the new domain so their desktop settings, favorites and
applications look and work the same.
The original SBS 2003 server died before I was able to do A migration.

Regards Mark

Hi Mark:

There is a third party app that will move these settings, but it is not
free, and for a small domain I would do it manually. I have seen a manual
move work as the user, and I have seen it work as administrator, and I have
seen it not work at all, so to be safe, you should copy out the folders you
want to preserve before you disjoin from the old domain. Usually the ones
you want are desktop, favorites and my documents.

Once you have them in a safe location, do the disjoin - join (using the
wizards of course) and copy them back.

If you miss anything, you can log on to that station as domain admin and
search for and move that. A likely on is a pst or OE file set, or some
other app that keeps its data in that "local settings - application data
tree"

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Larry
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"Mark Gibbons" <> wrote in message
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>I have some Windows XP & Vista workstations that I need to remove from a
>windows 2003 SBS domain and join them to a new Windows 2008 SBS domain.
> Is there an way to keep their existing user profile after I join the
> workstions to the new domain so their desktop settings, favorites and
> applications look and work the same.
> The original SBS 2003 server died before I was able to do A migration.
>
> Regards Mark