ForensiT User Profile Wizard? I have a non-domain Win11 PC in use for 3 years and I want to join it to the domain w/ folder redirection GPO but keep everything intact...possible?

This is exactly what we use for large workgroup/domain to entra migrations. Used it thousands of times. There's some quirks, most notably default apps and passwords stored in the browser. It's been really successful for us.

Yea I’d clone the drive just to have that backup, then you could also copy the profile. Just to be double sure. Remember that 3 backups is 2, 2 backups are 1, and 1 is none.

there are a bunch of different join types for intune, and you cannot migrate to an AzureAD Joined device with these tools unfortunately.

??? - you certainly can. You dump all of the Entra accounts and their GUIDs to an XML file and place it in the same folder as the executable with the default name. It's in their documentation. This is what we do when we migrate clients from on prem/workgroup to Entra.

ForensIT has two programs for managing profiles. One converts a local profile to a domain profile. I tested it once about 6 years ago and it worked fine for me in my test lab. The other program saves the local profile to a file that you can apply to another computer (or the same computer). My coworkers used the profile converter program at a customer site once years ago and the profiles got lost somehow. There was no backup. They had to recreate the user profiles in the domain. Much chagrin, so embarrass. Since then we used profile copy program only. I believe it is called TransWiz. I've used it many times to copy a domain profile to a different computer. I expect it would work for copying to the same computer. If something goes wrong, you can delete the domain profile and try again.

Make sure to login after reboot as a local or domain admin but not the account you’re migrating. I’ve always manually joined domain, reboot, login as domain user so it creates local folders, logout, login as domain admin and run profile wizard and done.

Following for tips; I recently learn about ForensIT, I am needing to migrate AD joined computers to Intune managed machines and have it in my back pocket to test whenever I get some “free time “

I've been using it to connect some desktop and laptop computers without changing anything. Remember to remove the passwords stored locally in the browsers. After the process is complete, users will need to log in to their browser profiles and their email accounts. I've also noticed the search indexing will be recreated.

Profwiz can rename and join the computer to the new domain as well. No need to do the domain join first. We just migrated ~50 computers from one domain to another with it a few weeks ago.

Dont forget that microsoft has a tool for this and a lot of these are just GUI's wrappers for that tool (USMT), if you run into some situation where you need free, you can use this and some powershell to do the same.

It’s great. You need transwizard to move from computer to computer