User migration to azure - keep old user profile

LilyLeiden 20 Reputation points
2023-01-29T14:48:40.04+00:00

We just tested migrating a small batch of test users to our new Azure tenant.

While migrating the PC/user account was no problem, the fact that people get a completely blank user profile, certainly was a showstopper!! 

Many of our users has had their AD profile for years, even a decade and has a lot of individual settings, ways to work, shortcuts, quick links, favorites/browser cached passwords etc. and they loose all that.
Management has currently halted the process due to the protests.

So I am on the lookout for a way to link/migrate the old profile/profile settings, when Azure joining the PC?

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  1. Dan C. Cunnings 101 Reputation points
    2023-02-01T19:22:25.59+00:00

    I spent weeks researching this a couple years back and I agree MS totally neglects that migrating PPLs desktop is a thing.

    Simple is best and we did research ways to just copy over what was needed but that’s not as simple as it seems.
    For instance lots of things should NOT be moved over

    The solution we ended up using at my previous job, was USMTGUI from EhlerTech

    Basically:

    1. Join the PC to Azure, using the user account supposed to use the PC afterwards, thereby making the user, at least temporarily, local admin, which is needed.
    2. Then start USMTGUI from a thumbdrive, select the old user profile and press “Run”.
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  1. Dan C. Cunnings 101 Reputation points
    2023-02-01T19:23:08.1066667+00:00

    I spent weeks researching this a couple years back and I agree MS totally neglects that migrating PPLs desktop is a thing.

    Simple is best and we did research ways to just copy over what was needed but that’s not as simple as it seems.
    For instance lots of things should NOT be moved over

    The solution we ended up using at my previous job, was USMTGUI from EhlerTech

    Basically:

    1. Join the PC to Azure, using the user account supposed to use the PC afterwards, thereby making the user, at least temporarily, local admin, which is needed.
    2. Then start USMTGUI from a thumbdrive, select the old user profile and press “Run”.
    1 person found this answer helpful.