Painless Profile Migration

Migrate profiles without leaving your chair

Backing up the profiles on a remote computer is a simple two-step process:

Open SavePC.bat (Listing 1) in a text editor such as Notepad. In the code at callout B, customize the BackupFolder variable's value. Make sure that your UNC path doesn't include unnecessary spaces before or after the UNC path. If desired, customize the /d: parameter's value (i.e., the maximum number of days a user profile can remain inactive before getting deleted) in the code at callout A. You don't have to change any other script settings.
Open cmd.exe and navigate to the ProfileBackup solution's Backup folder. Type SavePC.bat followed by the name of the remote PC that contains the profiles you want to back up. For example, if you unzipped Profile-Backup on your E drive and you want to back up a computer named COMPUTER_OF_SIMON, the command would look like
```
E:\ProfileBackup\Backup> 
  SavePC.bat 
  COMPUTER_OF_SIMON
```
(Although this command appears on several lines here, you would enter it on one line in the command-shell window. The same holds true for the other multiline command in this article.)

Restoring profiles is also a two-step process: . . .

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1. We seem to be missing three of the "supporting scripts", SaveProfile.bat, DelTemFiles.vbs, and SavePC.kix.

2. Does this work only work when the domain is the same?

3. Give us a break with the image text, you're presenting characters that aren't on the keyboard, do we ignore them, use what's close?

Jeff

lospinoj October 18, 2006 (Article Rating:

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Where are the supporting scripts??

netdirtech October 18, 2006 (Article Rating:

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Hi Jeff and netdirtech! I'm Simon, the author of the article. I see that there was some problem with publication of support scripts. I've contacted already Windows Scripting Solutions stuff to replace current zip file with the correct one, but for now, you can contact me freely by mail, simonz@extreme.co.il, and I'll provide you all the scripts needed for the solution.

As for the questions:
I didn't test migrating solution across many domains, but I think it will work with the following conditions are true:
if there is a dual trust between participating domains(so you can access each participating computer from another); user, running the scripts is administrator of both computers participating in the migration.
As for the image text, I am sorry, but I don't understand what do you mean. Please, contact me by mail and I'll try to solve the problem.

Best wishes, Simon Zeltser.

simon130 October 23, 2006 (Article Rating:

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very nice

nickjo67 November 07, 2006 (Article Rating:

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Hi Simon,

I already send you an e-mail to ask if you could send me the zip file with the files needed for the solution. Could you please do do.

Thanks in advance
Martin

mvanhautte November 14, 2006 (Article Rating:

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Great setup Simon. Have you had any response from the website re: uploading the proper script package?

jeremyschubert November 27, 2006 (Article Rating:

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Due to a production error, all of the downloadable files for this article weren't originally available. This problem has been corrected. Sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused.

chumphries@penton.com December 01, 2006 (Article Rating:

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Article was getting useful but then it stops ( Because I needed to migrate the profiles on remote machines, using the wizard wasn't an option. . . .). Where is the rest of the article ?

tbkc3 February 15, 2007 (Article Rating:

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Good!

spneo May 15, 2007 (Article Rating:

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Like the soution, very easy to understand what happens in each phase.

perezjonestsisah@yahoo.com January 05, 2008 (Article Rating:

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