[Stonegarden]

Hello, here is a minor puzzle:

I am engaged supporting a network consisting of 20 XP home clients in a
workgroup...laughably the name of the workgroup is "Domain". Users access
files and folders on a Win2k pro system. they call it their "Server". This
workgroup has been unmanaged for quite some time and is a bit of a mess.

There is a Domain at the location as well. It consists of of a single DC
running Win 2003 Server Standard and is configured as a DC. AD is running and
so is DNS. There are a handful of clients running XP Pro.

Here is my mission - I need to decide whether to upgrade or install XP pro
on all of the workgroup clients. The users will have new Domain accounts, but
it would be nice if I could export their profiles to their new domain
accounts. The hardware within the org is all compliant w/ XP Pro.

Any suggestions to make this process as smooth as possible would be
appreciated.

Thx,

Stone

[Richard G. Harper]

The Windows XP Files and Settings Transfer Wizard will save settings and
documents of your choice from one profile and allow them to be imported into
another.

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"Stonegarden" <Stonegarden@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D506EFF6-16C0-4666-AF66-9E5C2C3824CC@microsoft.com...
> Hello, here is a minor puzzle:
>
> I am engaged supporting a network consisting of 20 XP home clients in a
> workgroup...laughably the name of the workgroup is "Domain". Users access
> files and folders on a Win2k pro system. they call it their "Server". This
> workgroup has been unmanaged for quite some time and is a bit of a mess.
>
> There is a Domain at the location as well. It consists of of a single DC
> running Win 2003 Server Standard and is configured as a DC. AD is running
> and
> so is DNS. There are a handful of clients running XP Pro.
>
> Here is my mission - I need to decide whether to upgrade or install XP pro
> on all of the workgroup clients. The users will have new Domain accounts,
> but
> it would be nice if I could export their profiles to their new domain
> accounts. The hardware within the org is all compliant w/ XP Pro.
>
> Any suggestions to make this process as smooth as possible would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thx,
>
> Stone