Moving Users to a Domain

October
29

When moving users from a workgroup to a domain or from one domain to another, you may want to transfer their user profiles to their new login. Windows XP provides a quick function to do so…

#1. Open advanced user management.
Make sure that you are logged on as an Administrator. Right click on “My Computer” and select “Properties”. In the system properties window select the “Advanced” tab. Click the “Settings” button under the “User Profiles” section.

#2. Copy user data.
Find the old user profile that you wish to copy FROM, select it and click “Copy to”. In the copy window, click the “Browse” button.

You will be prompted to find the domain login profile. It should be called something like YourName.YOURDOMAIN. After you browse to the correct folder, click “OK” and the documents and settings will be moved over.

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