Roaming profiles from xp to win 7

JoeF1

JoeF1

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Hiya guys

Iv need help with roaming profiles im in the process of upgrading PCs from xp to windows 7. I have already made the dupicate [username.V2] folder. in the userprofile folder etc. But then do i manually copy the files from the current folder into the V2 folder before i log the user in on the windows 7 PC?

Or am i going the wrong way around this? Thanks.
 
You don't manually create profile folders they are automatically created when the user logs off. What happens is that it just creates a new user profile on the network location.

to transition settings from old profile to new profile. What i did was create a login script that only ran on the first login that copies over favorites, nk2 and other files from roaming profile. my documents was already redirected to another location and so was desktop.
 
groen said:
You don't manually create profile folders they are automatically created when the user logs off. What happens is that it just creates a new user profile on the network location.
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I did this yesterday, just let it make its own folder but nothing ported over. Then the .V2 folder was created i couldnt delete, edit or even open the folder.
 
You should copy like this...

From old profile to local profile. When the user logs off it will create the new roaming profile.


Only the user has permission to the windows 7 profile folders for security reasons. You can take ownership if you want but you should never realy need to do that. As the copy process copies the files from the windows xp roaming profile to the windows 7 local profile you don't need admin rights to the roamin profile as the user already has access to their own xp profile.

This is how mine looked:

copy //path/to/windows/xp/profile/%username%/favourites/*.* %userprofile%/favourites/*.* /Y
copy //path/to/windows/xp/profile/%username%/appdata/ms/outlook/*.nk2 %appdata%/ms/outlook/*.* /Y

just a rough example but you get it :D?
 
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