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I have found variations on this, but not this specific one. I have had a local account on my laptop for some time, which has just been joined to the company domain. I am a local admin, but not a domain admin. I'd like to copy my local profile into the domain profile. (Not hack up the registry to point both accounts to the same directory)
Windows Easy Transfer requires me to be a domain admin. The 'registry profile list' method on Technet leaves you with one profile essentially, and also doesn't work for me (can't open ntuser.dat for the local profile). Is there another way, or a tool to do this?
AnotherHowie
Posted 2015-03-18T12:20:57.567
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Yes; Have an Administrator on the domain do the transfer for you. Any tool that has the capability to do this would require the capability to take ownership of the local user's profile folder which as a non-administrator on the Domain you don't have that capability. – Ramhound – 2015-03-18T12:25:03.683
I do have that capability though - in my initial fiddling, I've given my domain account full control on my local account's profile directory. – AnotherHowie – 2015-03-18T12:26:26.473
So just manually transfer the files to the same location. That's all the
Windows East Transferdoes anyways. – Ramhound – 2015-03-18T12:27:29.230OK - it doesn't do anything special with registry settings? – AnotherHowie – 2015-03-18T12:28:11.387
If it does then any tool that replicated the functionality would still need domain
Administratorpermissions. I would ask a domainAdministratorfor assistance. – Ramhound – 2015-03-18T13:47:45.040