User Profile Wizard 24 is the latest version of ForensiT's powerful workstation migration tool. User Profile Wizard will migrate your current user profile to your new user account so that you can keep all your existing data and settings.
User Profile Wizard has been used to automatically migrate millions of workstations to new domains. It can be used to migrate workstations to a new domain from any existing Windows network; it can join standalone computers to a domain for the first time, or migrate workstations from a domain back to a workgroup; it can also migrate user profiles to Azure AD user accounts.
Convert Local Account To Domain Account
If you are joining to Active Directory computers that are already in use by users you need to migrate their profiles from local to domain. Same thing happens when you migrate such a computer from one domain to another. Of course, user may still their local accounts but this is quite pointless.
when trying to log in with the changed profile image path, the system starts to log in, then signs out and returns me to the lock screen. If I enter the system as administrator and return the default profile image path for the domain I can log on to the domain account fine. Perhaps I am missing some permissions? any advice?
If you're anything like me, you might have a handful of PCs or VMs with local accounts on them from an era prior to you having an Active Directory domain. Until now, it seemed to me that there was no reasonable way to get the contents of these local accounts transferred onto a domain-based account.
This free piece of software is able to migrate your local Windows account into one of your existing domain accounts and in today's post, I'll be covering how to install it and perform the migration process.
On this step, all users currently residing on the machine will be displayed. As you can see, I currently only have one local account named tcude. My goal is to tie this account to my AD account that is also named tcude so I will select it and then click "Next".
Here we will specify the domain we're wanting to migrate the account to. As previously mentioned, I'm wanting to tie this account to my AD account that also shares the name tcude, so I've specified it in the second text field.
Upon completion, the software will automatically log you out of your current session, for you to then re-log in as your new domain migrated account. The credentials will be exactly the same as they usually are when logging in with your AD account.
Converting your local Windows account into an AD account is as simple as that! Hopefully, if you were in a situation similar to me, you find this post helpful. I found the software to be very easy to use and am enjoying getting to prune up any old local accounts and rely solely on AD authentication.
Problem is that i want to convert their existing local user profile into their new ad profile. Severals settings are set in the local profile and the users aren't very "it-talented". So i want to give them the experience that not so much changed for them. In the User Profile are e.g. Outlook 2010 settings for an IMAP Mail-Account which sould not be changed.
I have a Windows 7 laptop that was connected to a Windows domain controller. The domain controller is no longer in operation and has been shut off. The laptop, now stand alone, works fine, but I want to know the impact of keeping the account that I use as a domain account even though it will never rejoin that particular network.
Ultimately, I don't want to reconfigure all of my applications; which I have fine tuned to my liking and workflow. Creating a local account from scratch would mean that I have to re configure all of my apps and in some cases reinstall.
I'm trying to think of any major impacts of using the domain account but since logon caching is enabled you'll always be able to get into the machine. I would still create a local account, copy my settings, then disjoin from the domain (assuming you have local admin access)
I tried to use Windows Easy Transfer to convert the domain account to a local account on the same machine (without copying the profile to a non-local location) and Windows Easy Transfer kept saying it couldn't find the computer! haha - go figure.
Although local user accounts can co-exist with Active Directory user accounts, in some cases, you may want to convert some or all of your local accounts to Active Directory user accounts. Converting local users to Active Directory users simplifies account management, but requires you to take some steps manually.
In most cases, you should remove or convert local user accounts to avoid conflicts between Active Directory and local user accounts and to ensure Active Directory password and configuration policies are enforced. If you need to keep local user accounts, you should ensure the logins are distinguishable from Active Directory accounts. For more information, see Map the UNIX service account to the Active Directory user.
When you migrate a user from a workgroup/local environment to an Active Directory domain, the user experience is always an immediate shock. This is because the user will normally lose all their settings and files under the new account. Of course, fearless IT people will be able to get everything back the way it was. But this has proven to be a tedious task; copying files, program configs, browser data.. you can forget something.
I trying to find the most effective way to migrate a local user account and data to an existing Active Directory account (MacOS 10.13.4). I have an employee that has been using a local account for some time and now is required to use an AD account (which is already a user on the machine). How can I migrate the account and the data?
Assuming the home folder has the same shortname as the AD account, you can remove (but not delete) the account from sys prefs. Then chown -R the folder using the group "YourDomainNameDomain Users" Then have the user login again and it should ask if you want to use the existing folder.
Three things1.What if the home folder shortname doesn't match the AD account? 2.My local account for users (not localadmin) is unable to be removed, its greyed out. How do I remove this account?3.Additionally, can you provide more detailed instructions on how to use chown -R command?
We have our techs logging in to the admin account and running a policy trigger in the command line. It checks if the machine is bound, communicating with domain controllers, etc. No need to migrate data with this.
Have you looked at this before have been using it for quite some time in my environment and seems to work will to convert a local account to a AD/Mobile user. With the only issue sometimes being keychain sync issues to which I just delete/recreate the /Library/Keychains folder
The problem I'm experiencing at my new job is that there are a lot of user accounts that are authenticating through AD but they are just creating local accounts. I need to find a way to convert them to AD accounts. Using a laptop I was given, I used a throwaway account for testing and I saw that it was authenticating using AD credentials but was only a Local account as verified by the UID of 508. This account was one of a handful of local IDs with UIDs between 501 and 510. I deleted the account from System Preferences as well as the home folder. dscl showed no sign of that account (as far as I could tell). I then made sure the Directory Utility app was configured properly to use Mobile Accounts instead. I rebooted, and logged in as the throwaway account. When I got logged in I went to System Preferences and saw that the UID was still exactly the same as before 508. I know a proper AD UID would be a much longer number. Somehow the Mac is still remembering the old username and UID. How do I make the computer completely forget about the old info and force it to use the AD account info so it can create a proper Mobile Account? If I login as an AD account that as never existed on this computer before then it is created properly as a Mobile Account. The problem only happens with accounts that have already existed on a particular Mac. I've seen this in the past before but it was something I had time and resources to just wipe & reinstall to fix. Now it's become an actual problem with Mojave and Catalina since I no longer have the time and resources needed to wipe and reinstall.
AVmcclint, I ran into this the other day with Catalina. It was still doing this even after removing the AD binding and then rebinding. What I realized though was that if you delete the user, do the AD unbind/rebind and then restart the Mac. At that point I was able to map the AD user to the old folder as the owner since even going through and manually adding it through the get info window was still showing the old user otherwise. I then logged in with the said AD account and was able to go on about business as usual since it then tied the AD account correctly to the AD UID instead of a local.
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