I wanted to create an Active directory domain, and migrate my users to using roaming profiles. However, the issue was that most users already had nice local profiles setup, and we wanted to keep those in place as much as possible. Here is how I did it.
1. Create a share on the domain with Everyone /Modify Con NTFS and Share permissions (only leave this permission level until done uploading the profiles)
2. Log into the local computer as Administrator (assuming this is NOT the profile to be copied)
3. Right Click on My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced Tab -> Click on the User Profiles “Settings” button
4. When the User Profiles selection box pops up, select the profile you want to copy, and click the “Copy To” button
5. You may have to first map a drive to the share location as a domain user to establish permissions to write the files into the domain
6. In the Copy To dialog, type the path to the share on the domain you will use for your roaming profiles -> click “OK”
7. The files should be copied to the share location.
8. In Active Directory Users, right click on the user, and select the profile tab. Point the profile to the share location just created and hit apply
9. Make sure to log the user out from any computer he is currently logged into
10. Now this domain user will have the same profile the local user had
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