Macintosh profile migration once binded to AD

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We are in the process of migrating machines into our new Active Directory Environment. The PC migration has gone fairly well, however, management would like us to start binding our Macintosh’s to AD so users would use their campus ID and password and adhere to our password change policy. We are successful in binding Macintosh to the domain however, we have not figured out how to move profile settings from a local profile to a network/mobile profile. Has anyone run across this or a similar issue? If so, what did you do to solve it and if not, do you have any suggestions/recommendations? In the windows environment, we have been using a 3rd party tool which has worked very well.

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cav

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Utilize the terminal with the chown -R and ditto -V comands and this will go smoothly. MacTroll was right though. The key is the shortname matching and permissions. I migrate profiles all the time on Macs. You may have some minor issues with certain program preferences that hard code in the path to the profile but this is pretty infrequent. If you are not famillar with the Unix commands in Leopard pic up the O’reilly book Unix for Mac OS X Leopard. I use it frequently since I did not start in the Mac world but find terminal and small bash scripts make my life a lot easier.

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