# Roaming Profiles

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roaming-profiles/722188
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [June 10, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roaming-profiles/722188 "2015-06-10T19:26:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![lazyjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lazyjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazyjedi)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roaming-profiles/722188/1 "2015-06-10T19:26:56Z")

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our company has recently acquired a small company with around 200 employees.  
We have a terminal server environment and have roaming profiles for all of our users. I am trying to figure out a way with out creating 200 new users if there is a way to get use their current domain account (they can log into their domain through our terminal server environment) and also be able to save printer defaults and also able to save a map drive. (if this doesn’t make sense please respond i will try to be with my explanation)

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### Author: ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roaming-profiles/722188/2 "2015-06-10T19:55:14Z")

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Accounts can be migrated or you can use a domain trust if you’re keeping the new company’s domain controllers online. It’s too complicated to detail a solution on a general message board though. If you’re going to be the person to implement this I think you’re going to need help.
