Convert XP roaming profiles to Vista?

We use roaming profiles extensively at my organization. Sooner or
later, someone's going to want to get a Windows Vista machine on the
domain. Currently, the only way this will work is if the user has a
separate Vista profile.

Is there any way to convert an XP profile to a Vista profile? I'm not
talking about Folder Redirection, I mean the actual settings: mapped
printers and drives, location of graphical elements, and all the other
things that are kept in the user's registry hive.

I'm a bit astonished that I can't find any documentation explaining
what to do about this. It seems like a fairly important piece of
deployment information!

David
Stardate 6931.4

"David Trimboli" wrote:

> We use roaming profiles extensively at my organization. Sooner or
> later, someone's going to want to get a Windows Vista machine on the
> domain. Currently, the only way this will work is if the user has a
> separate Vista profile.
>
> Is there any way to convert an XP profile to a Vista profile? I'm not
> talking about Folder Redirection, I mean the actual settings: mapped
> printers and drives, location of graphical elements, and all the other
> things that are kept in the user's registry hive.
>
> I'm a bit astonished that I can't find any documentation explaining
> what to do about this. It seems like a fairly important piece of
> deployment information!
>
> David
> Stardate 6931.4

Hi David,

I'm experiencing the exact same problem here - Vista just creates a new
profile called <profilename>.V1 alongside the legacy roaming profile and uses
that instead. No settings are transferred, which is a huge pain.

I'm very confused by this, it seems like a MAJOR issue, unless I'm seriously
missing something. What's going to happen in domain environments with XP and
Vista machines? Two profiles that need to be updated individually? :-S

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Dave.

Hi
You will find the answer in the
Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide.doc

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

/Torbjörn

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> "David Trimboli" wrote:
>
>> We use roaming profiles extensively at my organization. Sooner or
>> later, someone's going to want to get a Windows Vista machine on the
>> domain. Currently, the only way this will work is if the user has a
>> separate Vista profile.
>>
>> Is there any way to convert an XP profile to a Vista profile? I'm not
>> talking about Folder Redirection, I mean the actual settings: mapped
>> printers and drives, location of graphical elements, and all the other
>> things that are kept in the user's registry hive.
>>
>> I'm a bit astonished that I can't find any documentation explaining
>> what to do about this. It seems like a fairly important piece of
>> deployment information!
>>
>> David
>> Stardate 6931.4
>
> Hi David,
>
> I'm experiencing the exact same problem here - Vista just creates a new
> profile called <profilename>.V1 alongside the legacy roaming profile and
> uses
> that instead. No settings are transferred, which is a huge pain.
>
> I'm very confused by this, it seems like a MAJOR issue, unless I'm
> seriously
> missing something. What's going to happen in domain environments with XP
> and
> Vista machines? Two profiles that need to be updated individually? :-S
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?
>
> Dave.

Torbjörn Granheden wrote:

> You will find the answer in the
> Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide.doc
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

No, I've already read this document, and it only describes how to
redirect folders to those of the old profile. It says nothing about
migrating user settings.

David
Stardate 6956.5