We found alot of issues with doing this. If you end up going down the route of moving your user profiles, be prepared for unexpected issues later on. Another option would be to look at groups policy to redirect My Documents etc to another area, be it a mapped network drive or to a users home drive Then go into the Location tab and change its location Once this is done, it will be the default for that user NOTE: You may have to do it for all users, if you want it done automatically for new users, then Group Policies may be the way to go.
You will also need to move all the contents of your old My Documents to your new My Documents. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How to move Documents and Settings folder to a new drive and make new location default? Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 6 months ago. Active 12 years, 6 months ago. I assume they are all trusted DC's since they are able to go site to site to authenticate.
When I ran into this problem different sites the regional DC was not able to contact the trusted DC fast enough to pull the profile for the user.
The user profile will automatically try to go back to the last working DC if it can't contact the closest one which will only authenticate and not push down the policies it needs. I believe this is a known bug in windows and But yes I do agree it is a pain.
Been awhile sense I have followed this, sorry I been so busy with my Exchange roll out I wonder if switching all my servers to will fix this issue Thanks Max, I feel bad man sites No worries. What we ended up doing is creating three sub DNS servers and created different routing host files so that if a machine could not get updated through their principle DC it would look for the DNS server and route back to the Master DC to get the proper updates.
Seems to be working now. I worked with Microsoft and its all network communication problems so check your DNS servers and network settings. Post Reply. Microsoft SQL Server. Windows Credentialing Security Problem. Intranet and Integrated Windows Authentication. If so, then the migration is quite simple. Disable the file shares on the old server, reboot if you can.
This will close any active connections to the server. Use RoboCopy to move the profiles and the permissions. Update the profiles for all affected users in ADUC. Alternatively you could rename the old server after migrating the files and then create a CNAME DNS entry for the old server's name pointing it to the new server and then perform a cleanup of the profiles and server names later.
If the old server is to be removed and decommissioned, add a DNS entry in for the old server name pointing to the new servers IP address and you're done. Sounds like a good time to setup DFS also, you can then just change the target folder in DFS next time and everything else will still match up correctly.
You should be able to run a powershell script to take ownership of the profile files, give you full access to the profile files, fix profile permissions to reflect proper user permissions, move them to the new location, update active directory to reflect the new path.
FIS is an IT service provider. I'll second DFS. If you don't have it yet this is a good time to implement it for redundancy. Two birds, one stone! I used the same approach for over 20 remote site file server upgrades.
It's even easier if there's shares that users' login scripts map to, editing login scripts is a pain. Restart the new server and all of the shares with share permissions will be configured just as the old server. I believe creating a DFS Namespace would be your best option. It may be an extra step now, but in the end if you point all user's profiles to it with a GPO this will sort of future proof it for when you have to switch servers again.
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