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Ziguana · Guest

Profile Problem

I have a slight problem with all the users and there profiles on my network.
Basically my server crashed 2-3 months ago and I had to build a new server,
at this time I decided to move from sbs to server 2003 instead of going back
I thought might as well go forward and do this all at the same time (I had
out grown sbs and needed to upgrade anyways).

I manually created all my user accounts and restored the exchange, I then
restored all the users profiles.

When the users log on certain things don’t work, policies don’t work, they
can’t access outlook (says cannot start MS outlook), mapped drives don’t
appear, basically there are a number of issues.

I found out that it is because I created the accounts then restored the
profiles and they don’t link, the SID will be diff etc etc etc

When I get new users they are fine it’s just old users. I have fixed this
problem in a bad way but for now it’s got rid of the issue, I added all the
users to the Domain Admins group so now when they log on all works fine.

My urgent question is this, can I somehow re-create all the NTuser.dat for
all users, the only other way to do this would be to rename the old profile,
log on with a new, log out, copy the ntuser.dat from the new to the old,
delete the new profile folder and then rename the old back to it’s correct
name. This is a monstrous job to do for the amount of people it is for!

Anyone any ideas, I’m at my wits end lol

Thanks

Carsyn Gu [MSFT] · Guest

Hi

Suppose I am migrating the profile of OldUser to the NewUser. When you
re-created the account, the SID of the account is a new one, although they
may have the same account name. (Note that we need to use NewUser to logon
for one time on the machine so it will have a profile folder created under
"%SystemDrive%Documents and Settings" as NewUser.)

1. Copy all the content in the OldUser profile to C:\backupprofile
folder. Check the content under C:\backupprofile to make sure all the
contents have been copied.

2. Locate the profile folder "%SystemDrive%Documents and
Settings\NewUser". Rename it to "%SystemDrive%Documents and
Settings\NerUserOld".

3. Rename the folder C:\backupprofile to C:\NewUser. Copy the folder
to "%SystemDrive%Documents and Settings". So we have migrated the profile
folder as "%SystemDrive%Documents and Settings\NewUser".

4. Add "NewUser" account "Full Control" permission to the folder
"%SystemDrive%Documents and Settings\NewUser".

5. Now, we need to assign the registry permission to NewUser. In
Windows Explorer, choose Tools menu, Folder Option. Choose View tab, choose
the Option "Show Hidden files and folders". All the hidden files/folders
under user profile will be showed.

6. Open Registry Editor, choose HKEY_Local_Machine. Then choose File
menu, Load Hive. Browse and locate the file "%SystemDrive%Documents and
Settings\DomainUser\NTUSer". NTUSER is a file without file extension. It is
the HKEY_USER hive of the user. Click OK.

7. Input a Key Name of the Hive. For example, Test. Under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, you will see the key named as Test. Under Test, you can
see the registry structure, which is same as HKEY_LOCAL_USER. That is the
user registry for NewUser.

8. Right click on "Test" and choose Permissions. Add "NewUser" account
and assign "Full Control" permission.

9. Choose "Test", then choose File Menu, Unload Hive. The hive will be
unloaded. Please make sure that you unload the hive before any further
actions. Otherwise, the registry file is locked and cannot be accessed by
others.

10. Now, all the permissions have been provided to the folders and
registry. Log off local administrator.

11. Logon with NewUser account. The profile can be loaded without any
problem.

Happy New Year!

Sincerely,
Carsyn Gu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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| Profile Problem
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| I have a slight problem with all the users and there profiles on my
network.
| Basically my server crashed 2-3 months ago and I had to build a new
server,
| at this time I decided to move from sbs to server 2003 instead of going
back
| I thought might as well go forward and do this all at the same time (I
had
| out grown sbs and needed to upgrade anyways).
|
| I manually created all my user accounts and restored the exchange, I then
| restored all the users profiles.
|
| When the users log on certain things don’t work, policies don’t work,
they
| can’t access outlook (says cannot start MS outlook), mapped drives
don’t
| appear, basically there are a number of issues.
|
| I found out that it is because I created the accounts then restored the
| profiles and they don’t link, the SID will be diff etc etc etc
|
| When I get new users they are fine it’s just old users. I have fixed
this
| problem in a bad way but for now it’s got rid of the issue, I added all
the
| users to the Domain Admins group so now when they log on all works fine.
|
| My urgent question is this, can I somehow re-create all the NTuser.dat
for
| all users, the only other way to do this would be to rename the old
profile,
| log on with a new, log out, copy the ntuser.dat from the new to the old,
| delete the new profile folder and then rename the old back to it’s
correct
| name. This is a monstrous job to do for the amount of people it is for!
|
| Anyone any ideas, I’m at my wits end lol
|
| Thanks
|
|

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