How to manually migrate your user profile to your PEOPLESOFT account

How to manually migrate your user profile to your PEOPLESOFT account

Document number: 69067

As part of the migration process to the PEOPLESOFT domain a tool was run to make user profiles available in the new domain. If something went wrong during the migration process you can start the migration process over instead of doing a manual copy.

If the user profile is missing or corrupt for reasons unrelated to the migration to the PEOPLESOFT domain see Eureka! document 29028 — How to restore local user profile.

Before starting a manual migration make sure that your new PEOPLESOFT account has been added and has administrative rights on the machine. See 69064 — How to determine if you are an administrator on a machine If the PEOPLESOFT login does not have administrative rights then see Eureka! document 69068 — How to add someone as an administrator on a machine

If this is not a migration issue, click here for side note.

Choose the task you would like to do

Try using the migration tool

Copy an entire profile.

Copy portions of a profile.

Try using the migration tool

Start the migration process over (this will take from 5 to 30 minutes). This process only copies over your profile. It does not create your PEOPLESOFT account. It will not synchronize your network password between the domains.

Log in to the machine using your original domain account (JDEMD1 or CORP)
Open My Computer
In the address bar
for JDE put \\peoplesoft.com\netlogon\Jdemd1
for CORP put \\peoplesoft.com\netlogon\Corp
Double-click on the VM or VM.bat file to run the process which will appear as a black Command Prompt window.
When the Command Prompt window disappears, save any open files, close all open programs and log off.
At the log on prompt make sure you can see the domain box. If you cannot click on the Options >> button to bring it into view.
Change to the PEOPLESOFT domain.
Log in using your regular User Name and Password.
To ensure proper authentication you need to be connected to the network when you login. You do this by:
- Having a direct (office) connection or
- Remote VPN users should use Eureka document 54119 — How to configure Cisco VPN to log into the network automatically to ensure that there is proper network authentication.
- Remote RAS users should dial in from the log on screen. For more information see the document 50015 — How to access the network using RAS or Dial-Up Networking .
- For IPASS (or if the VPN solution doesn't work) see A55191 — Authenticating a remote user to the network for migration

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Copy an entire profile.

Before you copy the profile check that the PEOPLESOFT login has administrative rights on the machine. See 69064 — How to determine if you are an administrator on a machine If the PEOPLESOFT login does not have administrative rights then see Eureka! document 69068 — How to add someone as an administrator on a machine

Log in to the machine using your original domain account e.g. CORP or JDEMD1.
Right click My Computer, select Properties.
System Properties dialog box will popup
Click on the User Profiles tab
You will need to select your user name from the list of profiles it will be domain name\user name. For example, if you log in to the Corp domain it will be CORP\username entry

If you are unsure of your user name press Ctrl + Alt + Del and the dialog box will tell you.

Press Copy To... button
In Windows 2000 in the Copy Profile To box, type c:\Documents and Settings \Default User
(If the folder "Default User" does not exist this process will create it)
Select the OK button
Click OK in System Properties
Logon to the PEOPLESOFT domain.

On the logon screen, there are 3 lines, the first line is your user name, the second is for your password, and the third line specifies what domain you're logging in from. On the Domain box, click on the "down" arrow and select PEOPLESOFT from the list. The password in the PEOPLESOFT domain is the same as your old one.

The above process should copy the current user profile to the default user profile. After that every time a "new" user logs on that user will get the default user profile. The different domains are seen as different users so logging into the PEOPLESOFT domain will cause the contents of the default user profile to be applied to the "new" person logging in from the PEOPLESOFT domain. If the migration process was done manually be sure to check that the PEOPLESOFT login has administrative rights on the machine. See 69064 — How to determine if you are an administrator on a machine If the PEOPLESOFT login does not have administrative rights then see Eureka! document 69068 — How to add someone as an administrator on a machine

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Copy portions of a profile.

As long as the user is logged in as administrator of the machine portions of other profiles can be copied over just as with any other folder or file copy. It is a process to be used with great care simply because it is easy to get confused and over-write the wrong thing. To manually copy over portions of a profile:

Open Windows Explorer.
In Windows 2000 navigate to c:\Documents and Settings\(your username)\favorites\.
Find the folder or file you want to share. Right click, then select Copy.
Navigate to the location you want to save, select Paste. Note: If you are looking for your PEOPLESOFT profile it may say username.peoplesoft or it may show as username.000

NOTE: Manual copying portions of the profile will be successful for many parts of the profile, but will not copy modifications to the registry. For that reason if you want an exact copy of an existing profile you should use the " Copy an entire profile" process.

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A Side note

This process will work in other situations with lost profiles, although the explanation may be confusing. Let me give it a try.

You cannot move the entire profile for the account that is currently logged in.
Only a user with administrator privileges can modify or move the entire user profiles.

Let's call the profile to be copied the source. Let's call the profile to be replaced the target. In the process above the target profile is PEOPLESOFT. To replace the target profile the user logs in under the original domain. But what happens if the account for the original domain is not available? Well any log-in that has administrator privileges will do, just so long as it isn't a log-in that uses the target profile. So if there is another user that has administrator privileges on the machine that logon can be used. Usually the only other logon with administrator privileges is "administrator", and that account can only be used by Technical Support Operations and Field Operations. In most cases, therefore, the solution above can only be used by the user in the context of migrating to the PEOPLESOFT domain. If, however, a particular machine does have another user with administrator privileges, the solution above will work just fine. There are no instructions being offered here because it is too easy to make a mistake. A mistake can cause the irrevocable loss of the original profile. If you have any doubt or hesitation at all about the process submit a ticket for assistance. To make an appointment for service open a NorthStar Ticket. Be sure to leave a contact number and describe the problem. You will be contacted by the appropriate party. To open a NorthStar Ticket, click here or see document 70001 — How to create a service request in NorthStar.