Moving user profiles

teaboy5 · 27 Jul 2010 at 00:27

Hi All

Has anyone moved AD user profiles from one server to another without any problems?

By problems i mean, without having to take ownership of the folder and moving it, thus resulting in the error with the roaming profile each time the user logs on.

I have tried taking ownership and then making sure the user has read and write access to the folder, but i still get profile error each time they logon.

To fix it i have to rename the old profile, create a new one and move their files by copying it onto to the desktop and sorting them from there.

Running on Windows Server 2003

DustyMiller · 27 Jul 2010 at 09:41

I have just moved over 200 user profiles from our Windows Cluster, over to our new Netapp filers, I found that a mix of Xcacls, and subinacl worked to reset the permissions.

Three line script if i remeber to set all the correct permissions on every file.

DustyMiller · 27 Jul 2010 at 09:45

FOR /F "delims=~" %%f in (c:\usersneeded.txt) DO subinacl.exe /subdirectories Y:\%%f /setowner=%%f
FOR /F "delims=~" %%f in (c:\usersneeded.txt) DO xcacls y:\%%f /G f1\mis:F /Y
FOR /F "delims=~" %%f in (c:\usersneeded.txt) DO xcacls y:\%%f /E /G %%f:F /Y

This reset the permissions to a list of users in the C:\usersneeded.txt text file.

This works after you have taken ownership, of the files and folders.

teaboy5 · 27 Jul 2010 at 11:52

Ok thanks, i will give this a go.

Liquidfox · 3 Aug 2010 at 12:37

When migrating between SBS2003 to SBS2008, i simply used Robocopy which copied across all NTFS permissions along with it.

robocopy \\source \\destination /copy

ATSOU /r:2 /e /log C:\Log.txt

Think that is right

Sone · 9 Aug 2010 at 00:11

my memory is hazy but I think ms have a gui tool called something like file server migrator.