From: John Cuccia 

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 04:52:16 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote:

>Richard B.  wrote in message
>news::
>> Oh yeah that would be a PITA.  They use roaming profiles that are
>> stored on a W2K server at present.
>>
>> Maybe I can just copy the roaming profiles to the new domain
>> controller?  Once all machines are on the new domain I can change the
>> location as I don't want them on the DC.
>
>I would think so, however copying profiles is a little tricky. You can't
>simply copy the files. The file ntuser.dat contains codes that specify who
>has permission to use the profile. When you copy ntuser.dat you have to
>change the file contents to make it work for the new user.

Do you need to copy ntuser.dat at all?

Seems you could copy user data, favorites, desktop (and other things) to
the new server, point the account to the new profile location and have the
user log in.   When that happens, won't the local copy of
ntuser.dat get copied to the new location during sync?

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