I have lost all my user account after Lion Server Installation. This is on a Mac Mini Server

I did all software update before migrate to Lion and Lion Server. But surprise! No more users account? I thought that a migration should take care off user accounts? Is there anything I should do to get my user accounts, an all related thong like email accounts?

not sure if it works the same for server - but this has helped a lot of folks (me included)
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15668588#15668588

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ronaldkerr24 wrote:
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