New Profiles and Romaing Profiles

So if setting up a user after a big event like a reformat or creating a similar username, it may prove handy if you've kept a copy of the old D&S or Users profile area. When logging in anew, perhaps as the new user there will be a new fairly blank profile made and their NTUSER files will be created with the user SID's.

The goal is then to login as another user with say Admin rights, and remove the new profile contents, slip in the old profile contents, and put the "new" ntuser files in. Works very well, but some programs will still need some setting up and tweaking like Outlook - set the Account settings and do the usual for slipping (eventually) the old Outlook.pst (or whatever name) file back into place.

ROAMING PROFILES Aspect

If setting up a user in a new domain but wanting to use the same D&S or User profile folder then do the following:

1. Move away the old user D&S or Users profiles folders on the C: Drive.

2. Up at the server, rename (or copy away) all the profile and userdata folders for this 'new" old user.

3. down on C: drive, logged in as an admin, edit the registry in the Profile List area:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Profile\ProfileList

There on the left side you will see the SIDs and on the right the folder path (revealing the user name) and the GUID. Get rid of the involved entries for this new old user, and go to the key above (ProfileGuid) and eliminate the involved GUID entry

4. logon as the new old user

5. logoff. And logon and off several times, then finally off and then on as an Admin.

6. Revisit the server area and move away these fairly blank profiles and userdata folders, then bring back (copy back) the older ones you saved in Step 2.

7. Be sure to copy in the new ntuser files you found in the Step 6 into the profile area

8. check the Security and ownership and setup correctly to involve this new user and nothing of the old, possibly invalid SID.

9. Logon locally on the workstation as the new old user and you should see all the old desktop documents etc.