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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Administration / December 2006Convert XP roaming profiles to Vista?
We use roaming profiles extensively at my organization. Sooner or later, someone's going to want to get a Windows Vista machine on the domain. Currently, the only way this will work is if the user has a separate Vista profile. Is there any way to convert an XP profile to a Vista profile? I'm not talking about Folder Redirection, I mean the actual settings: mapped printers and drives, location of graphical elements, and all the other things that are kept in the user's registry hive. I'm a bit astonished that I can't find any documentation explaining what to do about this. It seems like a fairly important piece of deployment information! David Stardate 6931.4 > We use roaming profiles extensively at my organization. Sooner or > later, someone's going to want to get a Windows Vista machine on the [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > David > Stardate 6931.4 Hi David, I'm experiencing the exact same problem here - Vista just creates a new profile called <profilename>.V1 alongside the legacy roaming profile and uses that instead. No settings are transferred, which is a huge pain. I'm very confused by this, it seems like a MAJOR issue, unless I'm seriously missing something. What's going to happen in domain environments with XP and Vista machines? Two profiles that need to be updated individually? :-S Can anyone shed any light on this? Dave. Hi You will find the answer in the Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide.doc http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=311f4be8-9983-4ab0-9685 -f1bfec1e7d62&DisplayLang=en /Torbjörn >> We use roaming profiles extensively at my organization. Sooner or >> later, someone's going to want to get a Windows Vista machine on the [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Dave. > You will find the answer in the > Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide.doc > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=311f4be8-9983-4ab0-9685 -f1bfec1e7d62&DisplayLang=en No, I've already read this document, and it only describes how to redirect folders to those of the old profile. It says nothing about migrating user settings. David Stardate 6956.5 |
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