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I actually just finished migrating my laptops over by using the method described in this blog

So a couple months ago I started using Windows Server 2008 in a virtual install and had all my users configured and joined the domain without any problems. Well as it turned out I was having issues with saving documents to the home folders while in this virtual install and since we are on our summer break and just started with the server I decided to make it a physical server. I have reinstalled W2K8, recreated my users but as many of you know the ids of the new users are not the same as the old even though they are the same name. My question is this, is there anyway to make the old domain account that is on the computer use the new user account without having to copy the profiles and basically start completely over? The users are all on laptops and I can rejoin the domain with no problem but the old domain profile is basically lost when I join the domain again. I might be picky but I don't want numerous folders on the computer that are like user.DOMAIN user.DOMAIN001. I just want the single profile folder so I need to reuse the original profile folder that was created when I joined the domain the first go around and have the permissions applied for the new users id. Sorry to ramble here I just wanted to try and explain as doing Google searches have not yielded many results but that could also be due to me not knowing exactly what to call this process.

Now I know some of what I am asking has been covered, but I am very new to Server 2008 (coming from Novell NetWare) and am trying to learn the permissions for the folder redirections. What I have/want is a folder structure as follows: D:\Users -Faculty -%username% -Desktop -My Documents -Application Data -Students -%username% -Desktop -My Documents I would like the base share to be \\Server\Users$ and each subfolder under that would be branched either by Faculty or Students followed by the %username% and then its subfolders. Now with this structure I want only Administrators and the user who is logged in to have access to the folders. I don't want User A to be able to view User B's directory. However as an Admin I want to be able to read and write into that folder. I have set in my GPO to redirect the folders listed in the structure under the username. In my attempts I have made it create the directories when the user logs in if they do not exist and I can read/write but so can every user in the domain. So I want to lock that down and need some help. With the structure I have, how do I get those permissions to be applied each time a new user is created without doing it manually?

I am looking for some insight to get an idea on licensing for a Windows 200x server. Currently we are using Novell and are going to be switching out to Windows but have a few questions first. Can anyone help me out and answer a couple questions listed below? Our student enrollment is 950 students, with only 450 getting onto server(s). - 450 students to access storage on server (Server 2003 or Server 2008) Our staff tallies up to 150 faculty/staff. - 150 staff accessing storage on server (Server 2003 or Server 2008) Within our Elementaries, we have one profile that all students can access/login to simultaneously (up to 100 at any given time). - How is this handled via licensing? With the above numbers what will we be looking at for licensing? - Is this license an annual? or can it be open license?

SYNACK, Thanks for your reply. After reading your reply I think I will just leave the system setup as it was delivered. It is setup using RAID 5 with a 20GB OS partition, a 100GB partition for software and 7TB of storage space. I was just looking to see if it was wise to keep that partition setup. As for the Hyper-V, I am afraid this is Windows 2003 so I can't make use of the virtual servers. And for our Time Clock software it is just a small MSSQL database that records time punches from employees when they arrive and leave. Once again, thanks for taking the time to respond.

So before I get into everything let me give you a little history. Our current tech coordinator and myself took over a system running Novell 6.5 without Zenworks. Our current setup has 4 Novell servers, one for teachers, one for students, one for server apps, and the other, umm...I think just storage. We have approx. 700 computers in our school district spread across 8 buildings, however, only 4 are using the servers and accounts. We just got a Dell PowerEdge 2950 and want to consolidate a little but we have a few questions. I apologize ahead of time here for how dumb these questions will be as we are new to the server realm (we basically just had experience fixing home computers) and need some advice to the best/most practical setups for our needs. Our PE has 6 400GB drives and a PERC 6/i RAID controller. We need (as we are limited as any school with budget constraints) to use this server for multiple roles. I will break down what we need and hopefully some of you can chime in with some suggestions. Please try to suggest things that don't require buying 2 or 3 more servers as at this time won't be possible. If more servers are really warranted maybe a suggestion can be made that would allow for migration to that later. Active Directory (For all faculty and students) Storage for all accounts created in AD DHCP Server IIS for Accounting Software package Time clock software Ghosting/Imaging server So with what we are going to need and with about 2.4TB of space what are some suggested ways to split/partition/organize the drives. I have been told to use RAID 5 but am not sure the best way to set that up with my software. If anyone can provide some help for us it would be much appreciated.

if you can use vbscript take a look at DevGuru VBScript Object: FileSystemObject. I used the CopyFolder and DeleteFolder methods in a script I created a while back.