Convert XP roaming profiles to Vista?

We use roaming profiles extensively at my organization. Sooner or
later, someone's going to want to get a Windows Vista machine on the
domain. Currently, the only way this will work is if the user has a
separate Vista profile.

Is there any way to convert an XP profile to a Vista profile? I'm not
talking about Folder Redirection, I mean the actual settings: mapped
printers and drives, location of graphical elements, and all the other
things that are kept in the user's registry hive.

I'm a bit astonished that I can't find any documentation explaining
what to do about this. It seems like a fairly important piece of
deployment information!

David
Stardate 6931.4

"David Trimboli" wrote:

> We use roaming profiles extensively at my organization. Sooner or
> later, someone's going to want to get a Windows Vista machine on the
> domain. Currently, the only way this will work is if the user has a
> separate Vista profile.
>
> Is there any way to convert an XP profile to a Vista profile? I'm not
> talking about Folder Redirection, I mean the actual settings: mapped
> printers and drives, location of graphical elements, and all the other
> things that are kept in the user's registry hive.
>
> I'm a bit astonished that I can't find any documentation explaining
> what to do about this. It seems like a fairly important piece of
> deployment information!
>
> David
> Stardate 6931.4

Hi David,

I'm experiencing the exact same problem here - Vista just creates a new
profile called <profilename>.V1 alongside the legacy roaming profile and uses
that instead. No settings are transferred, which is a huge pain.

I'm very confused by this, it seems like a MAJOR issue, unless I'm seriously
missing something. What's going to happen in domain environments with XP and
Vista machines? Two profiles that need to be updated individually? :-S

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Dave.