We have quite the unique problem. Our organization had a Windows 2000 Server configured about 10 years ago. Then, five years ago, a Windows 2003 server was added to the domain. The previous IT department was never able to promote the 2003 server. That being
said, last week two of the three hard-drives in the Windows 2000 RAID5 array failed. Because of the problem with promoting the 2003 server, users were now unable to log onto the network via the 2003 server. All network printing failed as did the path to the
share drives (even though they were directly attached to the 2003 server).
Because of all the issues that have been going on for the last five years, the decision was made to purchase Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and start fresh. We pulled the 2003 server off the network, then assigned the new server with the IP address of the
2003 server. Same domain name as well.
We tested this out today and discovered that when we pull clients off the original domain, then add them back that a new user folder is created. Our plan was to copy all the settings from the original profile and paste them into the newly created profile.
This plan was a failure. Many items do not copy over, some had file names that were to long to copy and when we rebooted and logged the user in, most apps did not work, settings did not copy over (Outlook for example) and one machine we were forced to do a
system restore (which did not entirely change the settings back).
Does anyone have any idea how we should proceed?

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There's probably no global fix. Since you lost the original domain the domain client trust is lost for good regardless of using same name and ip address. You'll need to handle the issues separately. For example if outlook is using exchange I'd ask here.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/category/exchangeserver/

if you're using pop3 then might ask them here.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/outlook/threads

Its recommended to always have at least two dcs to avoid this issue.


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Microsoft MVP [Windows]

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There's probably no global fix. Since you lost the original domain the domain client trust is lost for good regardless of using same name and ip address. You'll need to handle the issues separately. For example if outlook is using exchange I'd ask here.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/category/exchangeserver/

if you're using pop3 then might ask them here.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/outlook/threads

Its recommended to always have at least two dcs to avoid this issue.


Regards, Dave Patrick ....
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]

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Hello,
just using the same domain name, machine name or user name will still result in complete new domain witha new SID(Security identifier). What you see is normal and all profiles will be created new on the local machines, users have new passwords etc.
Just copying the profile may result in settings as you see now, as some programs integrate also some fodler paths in the registry that are now changed with the new profile/permissions.
In the outlook specific, i suggest to logon with cached credentials to the old profile(if machines are not joined to the new created domain) and export the mailbox as .pst that can be imported into the new created profile.Best regards
Meinolf Weber
MVP, MCP, MCTS
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
My Blog:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mweber/


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Hi
Have you try ADMT tool
If I understood you correctly you had some users visible on 2003 server?
For correcting this problem Meinolf Weber gives you a hint. I just wont to add that in Windows XP you have migration tool for profile built in. In Windows 7 also (All programs - Accessories - System Tools - Windows Easy Transfer). For Exchange you will need
to export mails to .pst files
Best regards
Dubravko Marak
MCP
Blog: Windows Server Administration

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