ForensiT Forums http://forum.ForensiT.com/ This is an XML content feed of; ForensiT Forums : Last 10 Posts Thu, 17 May 2012 21:41:01 +0000 Thu, 17 May 2012 07:38:37 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.06 30 forum.ForensiT.com/RSS_topic_feed.asp ForensiT Forums http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_images/ForensiT_Logo.gif http://forum.ForensiT.com/ Domain Migration : The right steps using the User Wizard http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=481&PID=1585#1585 Author: Support
Subject: The right steps using the User Wizard
Posted: 17 May 2012 at 7:38am

It does sound right. I think it is SBS Connect wizard that forces you to disjoin the machine first; User Profile Wizard does not have this requirement.]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 07:38:37 +0000 http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=481&PID=1585#1585 Domain Migration : The right steps using the User Wizard http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=481&PID=1582#1582 Author: Bruce Berls
Subject: The right steps using the User Wizard
Posted: 16 May 2012 at 6:10pm

I'll be doing an almost identical project in two weeks, hoping to use Forensit for the first time. Post back if you discover any tips!
 
If I read this right, then I'll disjoin from the existing domain and run the SBS Connect wizard to join the new domain. My guess is that I should log in as the domain admin, then run Forensit to move the user profile for the primary user on that computer.
 
Does that sound right?
]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 18:10:53 +0000 http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=481&PID=1582#1582 Desktop Management : Ambiguous "to migrate" in Wizard and User's Manual http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=483&PID=1581#1581 Author: abello
Subject: Ambiguous "to migrate" in Wizard and User's Manual
Posted: 16 May 2012 at 12:58pm

UPDATE! (SOLVED)

Finally, I noted that the User Profile Wizard tool works in this manner:
1. The first time it ask for some "to migrate" is the migrate TO [destination] profile.
2. Then it ask WHAT profile is supposed to emigrate (the FROM profile).

Since the migration duplicated "OEM" profiles, they remained in the USERS folder along with the desired (properly configured and customized) profile. The latter could be "restored" by selecting the check box "Show Unassigned Profiles", and there it was. Sort of an orphaned but compete profile waiting for a home. Nice.

Can'tdocument more thoroughly, since the profwiz.exe utility keeps hanging andrefuses to kill its processes even with Task Manager. Probably the ownershippermissions are to be blamed. Wil post later after rebooting Windows 7.

UPDATE AFTER REBOOTING: Make sure to add your new domain user to the LOCAL machine administrator's list.

Kudos to ForensiT!

The Wizard works as intended, didn't lost a single file and kept ALL configurations and user customizations. Finally, Windows user migration works as Microsoft always bragged in their brochures, but never delivered as smoothly as this mighty little app.



Edited by abello - Yesterday at 1:51pm]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 12:58:13 +0000 http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=483&PID=1581#1581 Desktop Management : Ambiguous "to migrate" in Wizard and User's Manual http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=483&PID=1580#1580 Author: Support
Subject: Ambiguous "to migrate" in Wizard and User's Manual
Posted: 16 May 2012 at 11:56am

You need to be clear about the difference between a user account and a user profile. A user account is represented by the username and password you use to access a computer; a profile is the set of files and settings associated with that account, usually stored under C:\Users\username on Windows 7.

User Profile Wizard does not move, copy or delete any data. Instead it configures the profile “in place" so that it can be used by the user’s new domain account.

Can anybody guess if that whole sentence is in reference to the "old" or "new" profile? Well, there isn't an "old" or a "new" profile, there is just the profile - the set of data and settings that you want to assign to a user account.

To resolve your problem you need to run User Profile Wizard again. Enter the details of the user account you want to use the profile on the "User Account Information" page, and select the profile you want to assign to theat account on the "Select a User Profile" page. Make sure you reboot the machine before logging on.

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 11:56:06 +0000 http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=483&PID=1580#1580 Desktop Management : Ambiguous "to migrate" in Wizard and User's Manual http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=483&PID=1579#1579 Author: abello
Subject: Ambiguous "to migrate" in Wizard and User's Manual
Posted: 16 May 2012 at 10:34am

Hello everybody!
 
It took me a whole afternoon to reinstall Windows 7 on my desktop PC and set the email, smartphone sync, keyboard settings, documents backups, the works. All in a workgroup environment because the domain admin was out for the day. This morning I joined my PC to a local domain controller and read about this piece of software that would save from setting up everything again. Just as I feared after reading the ambiguous wizard instructions, I downloaded the Profile Wizard, logged in the workgroup profile, ran the wizard it and it did the exact same opposite: It "migrated" the just-new, blank domain user profile into my already configured workgroup profile. That "to migrate" did the trick of screwing up my setup. This mistake could had been easily avoided if the wizard and User's Manual would had resort to a clearer "FROM/TO" or à la Microsoft "old/new machine" migration paradigm that people are accustomed since the dawn of personal computing.
 
Think about it! "select the domain and account name for the user you would like to use the profile". Can anybody guess if that whole sentence is in reference to the "old" or "new" profile? "use the profile". What profile, dare I ask? The one in moving from or the one I'm moving into? It's totally ambiguous, since the whole sentence could apply to either case!
 
A simpler "select the profile you're migrating FROM" or "select the profile you're migrating INTO" would be a much more intuitive and crystal clear guide. The mess extends to the User's Manual which I read in advance and provided absolutely no clues as to which thing it referred in the first and foremost place.
 
Now I have two blank profiles, and a third "orphaned" profile, that's just the one I want to use both in local and domain profiles. I want my old local profile back. Please help me restore this mess.
 
Thank you in advance.
]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 10:34:26 +0000 http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=483&PID=1579#1579 Domain Migration : The right steps using the User Wizard http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=481&PID=1578#1578 Author: stef823
Subject: The right steps using the User Wizard
Posted: 15 May 2012 at 8:05am

Thanks I'll check that out.]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 08:05:17 +0000 http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=481&PID=1578#1578 Domain Migration : The right steps using the User Wizard http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=481&PID=1577#1577 Author: Support
Subject: The right steps using the User Wizard
Posted: 15 May 2012 at 4:00am

Hi,

You do not need to be logged on to the machines with the user accounts whose profiles you want to migrate; you just need to run User Profile Wizard as an Administrator and then choose the profile you want to migrate. It does not matter whether the old domain is still on the network or not: obviously the new domain should be up and accessible.

For SBS migrations we recommend that you use the SBS "Join Computer" Wizard to join the machines to the new domain, you can then run User Profile Wizard to migrate the profiles.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 04:00:02 +0000 http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=481&PID=1577#1577 Domain Migration : The right steps using the User Wizard http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=481&PID=1575#1575 Author: stef823
Subject: The right steps using the User Wizard
Posted: 14 May 2012 at 12:13pm

I read a few step by steps, but have not seen one exactly like mine and I want to make sure I get it right.
 
Environment
  • I'll be using the interactive wizard with a config file
  • Move from one SBS2008 Domain to a New one on another Machine
  • Old Domain office.wesco.com, New Domain office.local
  • 12 computers with user profiles being the being the same before and after

Steps?

Not sure which way to start:

  1.  After logging into the existing domain on each pc with the user profile I want to migrate, I disconnect the old server from the network and attach the new one and run the tool on each pc to migrate profile and join new domain?
  2.  Log into each PC with a local admin account, perform the server swap, run the profile wizard specifing the appropriate user account I want migrated and joined to the domain?

Any wise words would be helpful.

 

Thanks!

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:38 +0000 http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=481&PID=1575#1575 Domain Migration : Profile migrated but not accessible http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=478&PID=1572#1572 Author: Support
Subject: Profile migrated but not accessible
Posted: 07 May 2012 at 1:24pm

This is not a problem anyone else has reported.
Check the machine event log to see if there are any errors.
]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 13:24:26 +0000 http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=478&PID=1572#1572 Domain Migration : Profile migrated but not accessible http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=478&PID=1571#1571 Author: Dhant3
Subject: Profile migrated but not accessible
Posted: 07 May 2012 at 12:17pm

I use "User Profile Wizard 3.6" and work very good with PCs and Laptops in migration of the workgroup to domain, but when I try with a profile of user of an old domain to the new domain, the proccess is successful, but when I try to login with the user account, the session starts but inmediatly is closed. When I login with the user Administrator account, work fine.
I need help]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 12:17:57 +0000 http://forum.ForensiT.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=478&PID=1571#1571