Server reload - profiles need preserving

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Have a client who is about to receive a new SBS server and have their
current TS reloaded. I need some help on how to preserve the TS profiles so
I can import/assign them to the same users that get recreated when we
install the new SBS server. Also need to know if the TS profiles will
contain things like outlook email signatures.

Any help is appreciated.

Regards,
Brandon Hegh
 
Re: Server reload - profiles need preserving

Brandon Hegh <brandon@cairnsom.com.au> wrote:
> Have a client who is about to receive a new SBS server and have their
> current TS reloaded. I need some help on how to preserve the TS
> profiles so I can import/assign them to the same users that get
> recreated when we install the new SBS server. Also need to know if
> the TS profiles will contain things like outlook email signatures.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Brandon Hegh


Hi - I suggest you pull back a second.If you've got an AD domain now, and
this TS box is a member server, you can preserve both AD & your profiles
when you migrate to a new SBS box, and not have to do all this messing
around with profiles or other stuff. Post in
microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs - and you'll probably get lots of
advice, one of which may be to check out www.sbsmigration.com for the SBS
portions.

You *really* don't want to set up a parallel SBS server & entirely new AD
unless there's some terribly compelling reason to scrap what you've got.

That said - if you're bent on this course come hell or high water, you might
mention whether you have TS profile paths specified for your users in
ADUC...if so, copying the entire parent folder over to another server &
fixing the security on it, then re-pointing the new users at their old
paths, will often work. IIRC Outlook e-mail signatures are in the users'
documents & settings\application data folder. I always redirect that (and My
Documents, and Desktop), and the same advice applies.
 
Re: Server reload - profiles need preserving

On Feb 21, 10:55 pm, "Brandon Hegh" <bran...@cairnsom.com.au> wrote:
> Have a client who is about to receive a new SBS server and have their
> current TS reloaded.  I need some help on how to preserve the TS profiles so
> I can import/assign them to the same users that get recreated when we
> install the new SBS server.  Also need to know if the TS profiles will
> contain things like outlook email signatures.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Brandon Hegh


You can do the same thing as you do on a workstation. Go to Control
Panel, System, Advanced, User Profiles.
The user will first have to logon to the new TS box, then you can
import the User Profile over from the old box within User Profiles.
Alternately, you can do a manual copy and reset the NTFS
permissions...not as clean but it works. TS profiles do contain email
signatures in AppData.
 
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