Migrating User Settings

Windows EBS does not automatically migrate all user settings from your preexisting domain to the new Windows EBS environment. For optimal performance and reliability, you should manually migrate the following features of AD DS from your preexisting servers to the new Windows EBS servers:

  • Logon, logoff, startup, and shutdown scripts

  • Roaming profiles

  • Remote home folders

  • Redirected folders

Do You Need to Migrate User Settings?

The need to migrate user settings might not even be applicable in your environment. For example, if AD DS was not present in your pre–Windows EBS network, or if you do not use scripts, profiles, home folders, or redirected folders in AD DS, you have no user setting elements to migrate.

In most other cases, ...

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