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Requirements for Migrating Users with a Crossover Cable

When performing a real-time migration using a crossover cable, all of the user accounts, except local users, are orphan accounts. An orphan account is a user account that cannot be resolved at the time of migration. It becomes impossible to resolve orphan accounts because the systems are connected directly to each other and not to a network.

Therefore before you attempt the real-time migration using the crossover cable, create user profiles for all the users that you want to migrate on the destination computer. While the destination computer is connected to the network, create identical user profiles on the destination computer using standard Windows Administration Tools.

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