Join Domain Keep User Profile

This week i joined my windows 7 laptop to my windows sbs 2011 domain.

Join domain keep user profile. If anyone can help me out with this i would greatly appreciate it. You simply copy the data from the local profile to the domain profile folder. Restart the computer does not remove the old domain profile user needs to log in under their new domain account then log off. Under control panel system properties advanced settings tab click the settings button in the user profiles section.

Introduction migrating local user profile to domain user profile is an easy to follow process. I have got to believe that there is some way to have a user join a domain and keep the user s current profile in tact and active. Find answers to join a domain keep profile settings from the expert community at experts exchange i have a profile setup on my windows 7 computer. I have been using a local user simon but also have a domain user simon so quite naturally i wanted to join them together in some way so that all the stuff and settings i had built up.

It is not recommended to store. I just updated the outlook with my exchange and it took forever. Join to the new domain enter new domain administrator username and password or user account with domain join right. When you have a highly customized win2k local profile colors fonts printers persistent mapped drives active desktop etc and you want to preserve it after joining a domain there are two distinctly different methods each quite viable.

Log in via the local admin account or a new domain account. Select the local profile machinename account and click copy to enter the path c users newdomain account and use the permited to use change button to link it to the domain. Join the computer to the domain.