Re: Roaming Profile cannot be cached, Why?

From: Gary Mudgett [MSFT] (garymu_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:06:30 -0500

I don't know if you are still having this problem, but if users are a member
of the Guests (directly or indirectly) group then their profile will be
deleted when they logoff the machine. You may want to check the domain
"Domain Guests" and local Guests groups for membership.

165398 Profiles for Members of Guests Group Are Deleted
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=165398 

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"Tim Springston (MSFT)" <tspring@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:#j8CyaiBEHA.1128@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi Mark-
> Are you still specifying a mandatory profile?  If so, that is why there
are
> no cached profiles, or retained settings, for your users.
>
> The "delete cached copies of roaming profiles" setting is intended to
delete
> the locally (on that workstation) downloaded copy of that roaming profile
at
> user logoff.
>
> Are you conerned about user settings not being retained (in which case
> remove the profile as being mandatory) or about the local copy of that
> roaming profile being retained possibly after user logoff?
> -- 
> Tim Springston
> Microsoft Corporation
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> "Mark Zhang" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5CA9CF55-ABC9-4E6A-B137-2C0053788C80@microsoft.com...
> > I disabled "Delete cached copies of roaming profiles" policy on GPO at
> domain level. And there is no GPO under it.
> > I logon to a PC with a user a/c that has Domain Admin privilege and a
> mandatory roaming profile.
> > I run the "Resultant set of policy", and can see the policy is
"Disabled".
> > I log off, and log back on again with a difference user that has Domain
> Admin privilege, and check the profile by using Explorer, and "System
> Properties", and cannot find the cached profile.
> >
> > Where goes it?
> >
> > The policy used to be in a state of "Not configured", but people still
> cannot find their cached profile, so I deliberately disabled it, and it
> still does not work. Any idea?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
>

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