

If you do, leave a comment and we can try to help. You should not receive any errors during or after these steps. You can use a tool like SIW.exe to retrieve the email passwords before you migrate. This is not a big deal because Outlook will prompt you to enter the password when you launch it (and you do remember your email password, right?). It is important to note that after you migrate the profile, the saved passwords in Outlook will be lost.

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The Domain User is not part of the Local Administrators group, but it won't matter if it is (This tutorial was tested with UAC turned off.) If you or your company finds this tutorial useful, helpful, or time saving, please consider making a donation with the paypal link on the right.

The local user is part of the Local Administrators group. My local user's account name is "user" and my domain user's account name is "tuser". In my example, I will be migrating a local profile on Windows 7 to a domain profile. It simply involves modifying a registry value and changing the permissions on the user directory and registry hives. This technique can be used to migrate local profiles to domain profiles, domain profiles to local profiles, and domain profiles to domain profiles. Don't waste hours using time consuming profile migration tools when you can do it in minutes using a simple registry tweak.
