Problems Migrating User Profiles, Moving Clients to New Do..

Old System: NT domain, 10 clients, local profiles.

Proposed Solution:

- Bring a Win2K3 server online, pre-stage new user accounts
- Log into the new domain with new accounts.
- Log in as admin and copy old profile directory to new profile directory
created in Docs and Settings.

(This all went well to this point. I should have remembered to clear out
temp files and IE cache and history. No need to transfer that stuff.)

I noticed some problems. Users couldn't save any part of their profiles, or
make local policy changes stick. For instance, they couldn't select a new
screen saver. There is a default domain policy in effect, but besides
password settings, nothing was added to lock users down.

I decided to "take ownership" of the new profile directories at each client
workstation, logged in as the users. This seemed to work. Changes could be
made, et al.

But the user's main drives (i.e. the "C" partitions) are jacked up. Do I
need to allow them to take ownership of those as well?

Also, I've noticed that in the security tab of the properties on a
file/folder object, the GUID of the user appears automatically, but it takes
about 30 seconds for the GUID to be resolved into a domain name\user pair.
What could be the cause of this slow-down? Win2K3 Server???

Thanks,

LFine
Fine Corp., Ltd.

Hi Larry,

Thanks for your posting here.

As for the C: partition on client computer, in general we set the local
administrators group as the default owner.

Are these GUIDs for the users in current domain or the original NT domain?
Do you point the clients to the same internal DNS server as your Windows
2003 domain controller?
Does the problem occur on domain controller?

I would like to suggest that you add a new user account in the permissions
list of a folder. Is it still displayed slowly?

Regards,
Bob Qin
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation

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