Active directory and changed user profiles.

[borosp1]

I have a question on active directory and adding users to a domain. The problem is our primary domain controller went down and now we have to use a backup which is setup totally different (on another domain) than the primary.

My question is that after I add each computer to active directory and create user accounts and then add the computer to the domain when I login its under one of user accounts on the domain. How do I keep the original profile to load when I login as a domain user on each indivual workstation or server. Its kinda not viable using a secondary login without all the stuff that was there under the orignal admin profile login to the computer.

 

[Rilex]

You don't. If you have to recreate something, you've created an object with a new SID. Since the old and the new SID won't match, you can't use the same profile.

You could copy over all of the data from the old profile to the new one, or use something like Files and Settings Transfer Wizard.

EDIT: The new login won't "overwrite" the old profile. Typically you'll have the original profile as C:\Documents and Settings\jdoe ... now you would just have C:\Documents and Settings\jdoe.DOMAIN

 

[borosp1]

what if multiple users have a default login of administrator? like in windows xp.

 

[Rilex]

Are you talking about local or domain profiles at this point?

 

[borosp1]

Originally posted by: Rilex
Are you talking about local or domain profiles at this point?

The problem is that some of these servers used administrator profile as the login to the local account. Especially all workstations with windows XP have a default local login as administrator as the default user profile. -not the admin group, but the actual administrator login.

I dont know how t oadd the computer to the domain without logging in an the profile will be different.

 

[Rilex]

No local profile is changed when you rejoin to the domain. Since these particular users were using "the" local Administrator, they will continue to be able to do so after you join the machine back to the domain. Their profile will also remain the same.

Sorry, I was referencing Domain-based users before, not local users.