User profile issues

alabamadps · 04-13-2007, 01:57 PM

Hello everyone. This is my first post on this forum, and I am at my first IT support job. I will lay out my situation and let you tell me what you think the problem may be.

At work we are migrating user accounts from a windows server nt4 domain to a windows server 2003 domain. We are going about this a section at a time so we do not get overloaded with the preperations and all. The users who have been migrated are doing fine on the new domain but, some of the users who are still on the old domain are having some user account problems. (I am not sure if this is related with the migration or not)

When the user logs on their user information is stored in c:\documents and settings\. So lets say I log on a John Doe; username jdoe. His information would be under C:\documents and settings\jdoe. Well now when some users are logging in they are losing all of the settings they had the previous day. When I go to look at their computers they have a new account, in John Doe's case it would be C:\documents and settings\jdoe.dps1. dps1 is the domain that we are migrating from that these users still are on. This leaves me having to move all of the users data over to the newly created profile. (documents settings and all) I think it is mainly happening of windows 2000 computers but it may be happening on some XP machines as well.

If you have any suggestions on what this may be, or if it is even related to the domain migration please let me know. Any help would be appreciated.

**cjessee** · 04-13-2007, 04:12 PM

I have experienced this as well, I often do the same thing that you are doing.. .when I move a user from a domain, typically, it will create a new profile... this is the problem with not using Roaming profiles, but once you set it in the new domain it should stick to the same profile. Because you have moved the account to a new domain, the WinOS looks at it as a new account... thus, this is why you are getting the multiple profiles.

You may get better advice by posting this in the Windows Server forum.

04-13-2007, 01:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
alabamadps Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 6 OS: xp	User profile issues Hello everyone. This is my first post on this forum, and I am at my first IT support job. I will lay out my situation and let you tell me what you think the problem may be. At work we are migrating user accounts from a windows server nt4 domain to a windows server 2003 domain. We are going about this a section at a time so we do not get overloaded with the preperations and all. The users who have been migrated are doing fine on the new domain but, some of the users who are still on the old domain are having some user account problems. (I am not sure if this is related with the migration or not) When the user logs on their user information is stored in c:\documents and settings\. So lets say I log on a John Doe; username jdoe. His information would be under C:\documents and settings\jdoe. Well now when some users are logging in they are losing all of the settings they had the previous day. When I go to look at their computers they have a new account, in John Doe's case it would be C:\documents and settings\jdoe.dps1. dps1 is the domain that we are migrating from that these users still are on. This leaves me having to move all of the users data over to the newly created profile. (documents settings and all) I think it is mainly happening of windows 2000 computers but it may be happening on some XP machines as well. If you have any suggestions on what this may be, or if it is even related to the domain migration please let me know. Any help would be appreciated.

04-13-2007, 04:12 PM	#2 (permalink)
cjessee Uh oh. Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 782 OS: Windows NT/2000/XP, Dictaphone, Windows 2003 Server	Re: User profile issues I have experienced this as well, I often do the same thing that you are doing.. .when I move a user from a domain, typically, it will create a new profile... this is the problem with not using Roaming profiles, but once you set it in the new domain it should stick to the same profile. Because you have moved the account to a new domain, the WinOS looks at it as a new account... thus, this is why you are getting the multiple profiles. You may get better advice by posting this in the Windows Server forum.