r/sysadmin • u/cknoettg • 17h ago

Forensit User Profile Wizard?

Does anyone have experience with Forensit User Profile Wizard in migrating a user profile from the old domain to a new domain?

I’m migrating 6 users to the new domain, and want the transition to be as seamless as possible.

Edit: it worked great for user #1. She had a ton of desktop documents, etc. i manually exported and imported the Chrome passwords and bookmarks. In our setup, I had to connect to VPN before running the tool and afterward as local administrator before signing the user in for the first time. I’m pleased.

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u/lechango 17h ago

It's good for that, and for just 6 users the free version is fine to run manually on each. As u/Fatel28 mentioned it will not move over encrypted stores like browser passwords or app credentials, but everything else stays as is.

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u/Fatel28 17h ago

That's the tool for it. Just export their browser passwords first if they care about those. They'll be invalidated. Otherwise you should have few issues other than your standard Microsoft sign in annoyances with office apps.

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u/Mission-Touch1366 14h ago

nice, glad it went smooth for the first one. i’ve used it a handful of times and the browser password thing is always the one catch, everything else just kinda slots into place. saving the chrome stuff manually like you did is definitely the move

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u/samspock 13h ago

Nice program. It can even migrate to Azure AD. Takes some extra steps though if I recall.

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u/Adam_Kearn 12h ago

It’s the best tool by miles.

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u/FutureITgoat 17h ago

Also beware, if they have custom / badly scripted programs that hardcode the old user path, the scripts will break and you're going to have a nightmare manually fixing and renaming the paths

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u/Eastern-Macaron-6622 17h ago

I used it to migrate 100 PC's to our domain from an old domain. Worked great, took an afternoon.

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u/whoisrich 15h ago

It worked great, just be aware what it can't migrate, like browser passwords. Also had an issue where some peoples "offline files" had not been syncing with the network, so had to recover them out of the protected CSC cache folder with "psexec -s robocopy"

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u/bruce_desertrat 11h ago

We just migrated over 260 users with it with almost zero issues. Our university has managed Chrome profiles so we made sure everyone was signed in before migrating. We were hybrid joining Intune/Entra most of the issues we had involved those pieces, and rejoining via Intune fixed them.

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u/interweb_persona 10h ago

Have used it for years. I recently used the transwiz software to migrate a user from one computer to another (non-domain joined PC's) and had an issue with icons rapidly flashing. Couldn't set default PDF reader either. Couldn't delete the reg keys for http https or .pdf. Eventually got them deleted though and was able to manually set default app for those pieces and that fixed the flickering

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u/DrummerAway145 9h ago

Have done ~2,000 workstation domain migrations with it (through GPO scripts), and have another 1,500 to go. No major issues other than needing to export browser stuff like you did when needed. To note that any user-certificate encrypted based things for the "old" domain user will break, as the encryption keys don't transfer, if that makes sense.