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Jeff Black
We are preparing to roll out a new desktop environment.
Our current environment is Windows 2000, SP4, Office 2000
SR1, including Outlook 2000 in an Exchange 5.5
organization. We will be migrating to Windows XP, SP2,
Office XP and Outlook 2003. Our migration to Exchange 2003
is in the works, but we will continue on Exchange 5.5 for
the time being. We are in a native mode Windows Server
2003 Domain
I want to minimize the impact to the end-user experience.
We are also using AutoCAD 2004 and other profile aware
applications. I was considering copying user profiles to a
temporary machine, applying the new build to their
machines then copying the user profiles back. Our
organization considers that this is a good time for a
fresh start in terms of the user profiles and wants to
manually recreate drive and printer mappings, and copy
only a minimum of information for the old profile, such as
My Documents, Favorites, etc. My thought is that we will
lose the user's individual AutoCAD configuration, Outlook
signatures and a lot of other items.
I believe that the technicians will be spending more time
and effort to copy individual portions of the profile and
manually configuring the remainder of the settings. I also
expect that the end user would spend additional time
putting things back to their liking. When other users hear
of this they will likely copy data from their machines to
their personal folders as well, and you know once
something gets put on a server, it is less likely to come
back off.
My question is this: Have any of you experienced negative
effects from moving user profiles between 2000 and XP,
from Office 2000 to Office XP or from Outlook 2000 to 2003?
Our current environment is Windows 2000, SP4, Office 2000
SR1, including Outlook 2000 in an Exchange 5.5
organization. We will be migrating to Windows XP, SP2,
Office XP and Outlook 2003. Our migration to Exchange 2003
is in the works, but we will continue on Exchange 5.5 for
the time being. We are in a native mode Windows Server
2003 Domain
I want to minimize the impact to the end-user experience.
We are also using AutoCAD 2004 and other profile aware
applications. I was considering copying user profiles to a
temporary machine, applying the new build to their
machines then copying the user profiles back. Our
organization considers that this is a good time for a
fresh start in terms of the user profiles and wants to
manually recreate drive and printer mappings, and copy
only a minimum of information for the old profile, such as
My Documents, Favorites, etc. My thought is that we will
lose the user's individual AutoCAD configuration, Outlook
signatures and a lot of other items.
I believe that the technicians will be spending more time
and effort to copy individual portions of the profile and
manually configuring the remainder of the settings. I also
expect that the end user would spend additional time
putting things back to their liking. When other users hear
of this they will likely copy data from their machines to
their personal folders as well, and you know once
something gets put on a server, it is less likely to come
back off.
My question is this: Have any of you experienced negative
effects from moving user profiles between 2000 and XP,
from Office 2000 to Office XP or from Outlook 2000 to 2003?