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Year end Staff Laptop Updates - Automated Mobile Account Migration

  • May 24, 2010
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Does anyone have an automated method for migrating an AD authenticated mobile user account from one laptop to another? I am trying to develop a methodology for updating staff laptops prior to the end of the school year. I would like to archive the entire user account prior to swapping out and/or imaging the current laptop for the staff member. Then reapply the archived mobile account back to the updated laptop. We usually run into permission or authentication issues when copying mobile accounts to a new laptop. Since we encourage the staff members to fully utilize their laptops, they have picture, movie and music content that we have to deal with also. The base image will consist of a fully patched 10.5.8 OS image. Any wisdom in automating the archiving and migrating AD mobile user accounts would be appreciated.

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    • noah_swanson
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    • May 24, 2010

    I've migrated a few users accounts to new machines using this article: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329971-263.html

    Hope that helps you out.

    Noah Swanson
    Macintosh Development/Support
    Enterprise Desktop Services
    Phone: 309-765-3153
    SwansonNoah at johndeere.com

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    • mbuckner
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    • May 25, 2010

    I've had to do this a few times, and after a lot of trial and error, here is
    what I came up with. I copy the user folder to another drive/network
    location. I re-image the computer. I copy the user folder back to the
    newly imaged computer. Do a 'get info' on the newly copied user folder.
    Unlock sharing and permisisons, hit the plus, and add permissions for the
    user account (we use active directory, so I'm giving the AD user permission
    to read/write to the folder). I then make the AD user owner and apply to
    enclosed items. When the teacher logs in for the first time, they already
    have permissions to their folders and everything works.

    Mark


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