I am doing research for my job where we are pondering the idea of moving to a domain, with AD and such. I am doing the pre planning/learning setup and other stuff that comes with it. My current question is.
What is the best way to move a profile from the local machine into the domain account so that users see the least amount of changes. ie so they don't have to resetup their profile when we join the pc to the domain and they log in for the first time.
I have seen some post about this on google but they seem to be outdated and don't work. We would be running server 2008 r2 level domain with mostly server 2012 r2 servers.
Thanks for your assistance.
Note: I may update this post with other questions in the future.
Have them log into the domain and copy / paste the items from their old profile in c:\users to their new profile.
It will copy over IE favorites, files, downloads, my documents, etc, but some of the preferences I believe like saved passwords and the likes will have to be redone (big whoopty do).
Just know that no matter how you do it, someone will complain. Accept that and move on.
So I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but I have in fact copied appdata over for one application but it was for a very specific purpose and use. That said, you would have to turn on show all system files to get this to copy over, and perhaps programs will act differently if this is done. You'd have to test it with different programs, but that is the fun of the job!