Hello,

Do you mean that you want to migrate user profiles from old domain to new
domain, or more specifically, change user accounts without changing
existing user profiles?

Would you please take a look at the following article and see if your
situation looks like it?

How to migrate from Workgroup network model to Domain based model?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555542

With Windows Vista, you can achieve this by using a tool named Windows User
State Migration Tool (USMT) Version 3.0.1. You can download it from:

Windows User State Migration Tool (USMT) Version 3.0.1:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...28c-691b-4b36-
b7ad-6c604be4c595&displaylang=en

For some general information about this tool, please take a look at:

Migrating to Windows Vista Through the User State Migration Tool:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/w.../aa905115.aspx

Please note that, before you perform the migration, you should read the
help document (you can get it after you install this tool) in more detail.
I will list some general steps here just for your reference:

1. Log on to the source computer as an administrator, and specify:



scanstate \\fileserver\migration\mystore /ue:*\* /ui:fareast\user1
/ui:fareast\user2 /i:miguser.xml /i:migapp.xml /o

2. Log on to the destination computer as an administrator.

3. Specify the following:

loadstate \\fileserver\migration\mystore /mu:fareast\user1:farwest\user2
/i:miguser.xml /i:migapp.xml

You need to adjust these settings accordingly.

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,
George Yin
Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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Hello Baboon,

Based on my understanding, your scenario is:

I assume you have one client computer (computerA), and it is now in
domainA. An user named user1 (domainA\user1) use this computer. Some days
later, you want to remove this computer from domainA and want to join it to
another domain, domainB. However, you want the user use account user1
(domainB\user1) to log on to the computer in the new domain with existing
user profile. You don't want to use ADMT to perform this migration, right?

If I have any misunderstanding, please let me know.

Well, this can be achieved by using USMT. You can do it as follows:

1. Log on to the computerA with an administrative account (Administrator)
in domainA. Then run the following command:

scanstate \\fileserver\migration\mystore /ue:*\* /ui:domainA\user1
/i:miguser.xml /i:migapp.xml /o

2. Remove the computerA from domainA.

3. After creating a new user "user1" in domainB and joining computerA to
domainB, you should log onto computerA with an administrative account
(Administrator) in domainB.

4. Run the following command on computerA:

loadstate \\fileserver\migration\mystore /mu:domainA\user1:domainB\user1
/i:miguser.xml /i:migapp.xml

5. Log on to computerA with the new user account (e.g. domainB\user1), see
it the user profile has been migrated successfully.

With this method, you don't need to create trust between domainA and
domainB. However, you need to create a new user domainB\user1 for
domainA\user1.

I have checked this on my test environment, and I would like to know how it
goes on your side.

Additionally, if you want to perform this job via the WMI provider, the
following resources will be more appropriate to provide efficient
assistance:

MSDN Public newsgroup
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp

MSDN Forum:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,
George Yin
Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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Hello,

I am just writing to see how everything is going. If you have any updates
or need any further assistance on this issue, please feel free to let me
know. I am glad to be of assistance.

Sincerely,
George Yin
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Hi Baboon,

Do you mean that you have some workstations running operating systems
earlier than Windows 2000?

If you do, you need to upgrade them to at least Windows 2000 as USMT
doesn't work on them. USMT only support Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows
2000 as source for migrating data.

However, if you mean that the domain functional level is Windows 2000 mixed
mode (containing NT4.0), but the machines are running Windows XP, using
USMT is fine.

Sincerely,
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Hi Baboon,

Thank you for your update.

That could be fine if only the domain is NT 4.0 domain. And the migration
will be much easier if there is a trust between them. If you are familiar
with some tools to do this, that could be your best choice.

If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to let me
know.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
George Yin
Microsoft Online Support
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