Re: Losing user workstation profiles

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Hey Dave!

Thanks for the reply!

I am aware that this is the normal expected behavior, however, this is
randomly happening to workstations that have been joined to the domain
for years or months... when the user logs in, the workstation creates
a new profile as if the user had never logged into the domain
before...

On Sep 1, 9:35 am, "Dave Patrick" <DSPatr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is normal and expected behavior. On a newly-joined-to-the-domain PC if
you logon to the pc first, then to the domain you would end up with two
profiles.
%username%
and
%username%.%userdomain%
Else if you logon to the domain first, then to the pc you would end up with
%username%
and
%username%.%computername%

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]http://www.microsoft.com/protect



<mattsp...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We seem to be encountering an issue with a few of our clients where a
user will log on to a Windows 2000 or Windows XP workstation and their
workstation profile will be recreated. When reviewing the C:\Documents
and Settings folder the user profiles will be as such:

C:\Documents and Settings\USER <--- Original user
profile
C:\Documents and Settings\USER.DOMAIN <--- User profile after
profile is lost

Now, in every case, it is an Active Directory user account on Windows
Server 2003. We've tried installing the registry hive cleanup service
on Microsoft's recommendation to no avail. Also, we haven't been able
to trace any event log entries to the cause.

The resolution is simply to log on to the workstation as the domain
administrator and rename the profile folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\USER.DOMAIN
C:\Documents and Settings\USER.DOMAIN.OLD

After the user logs back in, everything loads correctly.

If anyone has experienced this or can shed any light on the subject,
it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
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