Download moveuser.exe

Ensure you have at least Microsoft. NET framework 3. The following examples take the profile for the local account for 'bob' and migrate it to bob's account in the lithnet domain.

Rickett said…. The new User Profile WMI provider can be used to map an existing local account profile to a new domain based account.

It can also be used to map an existing domain-based account profile to a new domain-based account profile.

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center: Windows Vista, bit versions Download the Windows6. Windows Vista, bit versions Download the Windows6. For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.

Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help prevent any unauthorized changes to the file. The English version of this update has the file attributes or later file attributes that are listed in the following table. When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. User saved passwords will not be mapped from the local profile to the domain profile.

Therefore, the user will be prompted to reenter these passwords the first time that they access the associated program. For example, the user will be prompted to reenter the password for Windows Live Messenger the first time that they start the program after the profile is moved. The following Microsoft Visual Basic script example retrieves a user profile object through the user name and the domain and then deletes the user profile object.

RoamingPreferenceis the only property that can be set by a user who has administrative credentials. The following Visual Basic script example retrieves and displays information about all the profiles on the local computer. To run the Visual Basic script against a remote computer, set the value of the strComputer variable to the name or the IP address of the remote computer.

When you run this script by using Wscript. After several months of solid development and testing, we had a tool that would reliably migrate the whole fleet of workstations, without user interaction, and provide us with detailed management reporting. It was capable of;. If you are interested in using the ADWMT tool for use in your organisation, send me an email to discuss licensing options.

I decided to extract the profile migration engine from ADWMT, and make it available for anyone to use. It is designed as a replacement for moveuser. Building an enterprise-ready replacement for MoveUser.

Moveuser wasn't without its problems; Error messages returned by the tool were generally unhelpful. A single Win32 error code can't tell you a lot about why a profile migration might have failed. This was problematic when trying to move a user profile from one domain user to another, without having a trust relationship between the two domains. ChangeOwner ChangeOwner was a little trickier to use.

It was capable of; Joining workstations to the domain Automatically mapping local user accounts to user accounts in the domain Automatically mapping user accounts in one domain to user accounts in another domain Migrating local user profiles to domain accounts Migrating profiles from one domain to accounts in another domain Keeping local group membership in tact Working without any user interaction Providing detailed reporting Running on Windows XP, Vista and 7 Performing migrations over a wired or wireless network Auto-repairing network configuration issues especially where no lanmanserver or lanmanworkstation installed Running custom scripts at any stage throughout the migration Being able to be run by a user without admin rights, and auto-elevate using a predefined list of admin accounts If you are interested in using the ADWMT tool for use in your organisation, send me an email to discuss licensing options.

A single command line tool, that takes either usernames as moveuser.