Question : How to Migrate User Profiles

Hello Experts,
We have created a new Domain where we have crated all new user accounts, its not currently in production. All of our users have roaming profiles which are stored on File Server in the old Domain. My next step is to migrate all the folders with user profiles from old domain to the new one. Can you suggest the tools that I can use to make this prosses as simple as possible? Both DCs are server 2003.

Answer : How to Migrate User Profiles

Note that you can NOT simply copy the folder content into the new directories; the user's registry has permissions configured as well, and these permissions will have to be replaced for the new user to be able to use the old user's registry. This is obviously not done during a simple file copy.

You can try the User State Migration Tool, and/or moveuser.exe from the W2k3 Resource Kit Tools (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD&displaylang=en).

User State Migration Tool 3.0
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722032.aspx

Windows User State Migration Tool (USMT) Version 3.0.1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=799AB28C-691B-4B36-B7AD-6C604BE4C595&displaylang=en

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