Server 2012 borked my Home PC!

Avathar77 · 18 Feb 2013 at 22:25

I installed Server 2012 Essential to my Microserver for testing and joined the Testing Domain of the Server 2012 with my Home PC which was in another Workgroup.
My desktop and settings were all the same even after I joined the Test Domain.

but now I want to take the home PC out of the test Domain and go back to the workgroup it was before. When I do that all my settings and desktop are gone and windows has created another user profile for me!(PCNAME\USERNAME)

Any one know how to revert the settings back to how it was?

PR. · 18 Feb 2013 at 22:47

Click Start > Right click Computer, click Properties.

About halfway down there's an option "Change Settings" click that then click "Change" and select Workgroup and type "Workgroup" then click Ok and restart.

That should be it.

Avathar77 · 18 Feb 2013 at 22:56

Yep, thats what I did first.
But now WIndows has created a new user profile for me!

Let me explain;
Before joining the Server Domain(Test Domain) my user account was called "Avathar77", "and my user profile was in C:Users\Avathar77.
After joining the test domain my desktop ans settings remained the same and windows used the same user profile(with same settings and desktop).
But after disconnecting from the Test Domain Windows created a new user profile called "Avathar77.Avathar77-PC" and it is in C:Users\Avathar77.Avathar77-PC!
All my customised settings, my documents and other libraries are not available(they are in "C:Users\Avathar77")

I huess I can manually change them and transfer all my documents and songs and settings but it takes time.

Any ideas?

tribz · 19 Feb 2013 at 07:43

I'd try a system restore back to before you joined the domain.

Shad · 19 Feb 2013 at 07:52

This is expected behaviour when dealing with domains and user profiles

You might have some luck with User Profile Wizard. I've used this on a few machines when joining a domain and needing to migrate a workgroup profile to a domain user/profile. I can't remember if it works the other way around but it might be a good place to start.

tribz · 19 Feb 2013 at 09:48

Shad said:
This is expected behaviour when dealing with domains and user profiles

You might have some luck with User Profile Wizard. I've used this on a few machines when joining a domain and needing to migrate a workgroup profile to a domain user/profile. I can't remember if it works the other way around but it might be a good place to start.

+1 for this utility. Fantastic for moving profiles

Avathar77 · 19 Feb 2013 at 09:56

Thanks guys! I will try this tonight when I go home.
I tried windows Easy transfer yesterday night and it did work for most part. But I was thinking of doing a clean install of windows.
I used to like installing windows 7(specially since SSD), but now I don't have time