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I've done some searching and there doesn't appear to be a method of migrating old 2003 based profiles to the new "V2" profiles automatically. Specifically, we're interested in retaining the <Profile>.NK2 file in Outlook, the Favorites folder, and the Signatures folder.

I'm in the process of writing a fairly complicated migration script that'll be executed at login, but seems like this is something that I shouldn't have to do.

The User Migration Tool appears to only work for Vista, not 2008 R2. Any other ideas?

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  • Could you send me the script you used for this? I am trying to migrate users from win 2k3 to 2k8R2 for Citrix. I have an RDP app on Citrix 2k3 server and I want to move everyone to our new farm while keeping the cached computer names on their new profiles. I am trying to do this with microsoft office as well. Thanks!
    – user266243
    Jan 21, 2015 at 16:43

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Nope. There isn't a way to migrate profiles from W2K3 to W2K8, they're not interchangeable and they're not interoperable. It's a headache but there's no way around the fact that you're going to have to manually copy the components you want (NK2 files, signature files, Favorites, etc.) from the old profiles to the new profiles.

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  • Caused me physical pain to mark that as the accepted answer. Gotta love Microsoft sometimes.
    – gravyface
    Nov 28, 2011 at 18:47
  • Yeah, I've looked high and low for a way around this but haven't found anything. I've got 600 W2K3 profiles to migrate to W2K8.
    – joeqwerty
    Nov 28, 2011 at 18:57
  • I can post up my ghetto script when I'm done if you're interested. Will be going live with 60 profiles later this week.
    – gravyface
    Nov 28, 2011 at 19:06
  • Did yourscript work? Im also in the process of moving 200 users from a TS2003 farm, to 2008 R2. It'll be painful to migrate without the favorites, signature files etc :\
    – user105355
    Dec 28, 2011 at 21:07
  • Yes it did. Let me clean it up and I'll pastebin it.
    – gravyface
    Dec 28, 2011 at 23:13

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