Re: Roaming profiles appearing with the hidden and system attribute



Are the roaming profile directories getting created automatically or are they created by an administrator? It sounds like someone is going in and settings these manually.

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Kevin Geiger wrote:
The TS roaming profiles that are stored on our file server are appearing in the root directory with the hidden and system attributes on them. To my knowledge, there are no GPOs or 3rd party applications/scripts that are modifying the folders. I thought by default profiles should be visible to an administrator browsing the root folder, but the administrator cannot access the folders (unless using a GPO that assigns admins rights on the fly when the folder is first created).

We are not experiencing any real problems, but this behavior is odd. The customer has modified the permissions on the root TS profiles folder to have Everyone and Administrators using full control for files, subfolders, etc. On the actual user profile folders the permissions appear to be inherited, not locked down as would be expected.

Why are we getting the hidden and system attribute applied to these folders? Windows Server 2003 SP2 was recently loaded, but do not believe it to be the culprit. Our environment is all 2003 SP1 minimum.
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