Domain Profile Switch?

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I have a small (approx. 15) person domain here. Recently i have been slowly converting some users to roaming profiles, and updating the "Members Of" portions of their profiles. This morning, two users logged in to their standard computers with fresh profiles. These two users were not being moved to roaming profiles. I know this for a fact, and just double checked it in their profile tab in AD. It's blank. What could have caused this? The two users had several admin priv., which i removed, but that shouldn't change their local login profiles, should it? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bill
 
Where they ever roaming profiles in the past?
Was there an error during their login that their profile could not be found..and a temporary profile was being used?
Not knowing what groups you changed as far as their membership...what if you put them back to how they were before..does their local profile load correctly?
Can you still browse their profile directories in C:\Docs 'n Settings\ and see their stuff? (desktop, docs, faves, etc)
 
were their profiles being copied to the server before they logged on with the roaming profiles?
I would double-check permissions on the profile folders that is hosting the roaming profiles.
 
The problem is the 2 computers that had the new profiles created were not ones i was changing to roaming. We have never had roaming profiles before.

Their profiles on the computer are still there, (C:\docs&settings\user.domain) but their now using C:\docs&settings\user.domain.000

I removed some of their memberships in AD, could that be the problem?
 
I think maybe it could've. Check their old user directory (c:\d&s\user.domain) and see if they have permission to access it and how those permissions differ from c:\d&s\user.domain.000
 
couple things you can do... although removing them from an AD security group should not have affected that...

delete the name.domain.001 folder.

download ForensiT User Profile Wizard
http://www.forensit.com/download.aspx

you can then use this program to re-associate the name.domain profile folder to the user's AD username.

I've used this program multiple times with great success.

Then try again and see what happens.


and you're positive nothing else change with their AD user objects, short of changing security groups?
 
couple things you can do... although removing them from an AD security group should not have affected that...

delete the name.domain.001 folder.

download ForensiT User Profile Wizard
http://www.forensit.com/download.aspx

you can then use this program to re-associate the name.domain profile folder to the user's AD username.

I've used this program multiple times with great success.

Then try again and see what happens.


and you're positive nothing else change with their AD user objects, short of changing security groups?


Can't believe I've never heard of that program before, sounds awesome, thanks for the linky.:)
 
Can't believe I've never heard of that program before, sounds awesome, thanks for the linky.:)

found it myself, when the higher-ups decided they want to migrate all divisions to a new domain.
I work for the state, mind you, so that's thousands upon thousands of users in the department. And of course a couple dozen divisions within the department.

Since we don't do the network-side of things, we got tired of waiting on them, so I found that for migrating the machines. Works very nice!

The corporate version is even better, as you can create VBScripts to migrate machines. :D


you can also use that to share a single profile with multiple users
 
couple things you can do... although removing them from an AD security group should not have affected that...

delete the name.domain.001 folder.

download ForensiT User Profile Wizard
http://www.forensit.com/download.aspx

you can then use this program to re-associate the name.domain profile folder to the user's AD username.

I've used this program multiple times with great success.

Then try again and see what happens.


and you're positive nothing else change with their AD user objects, short of changing security groups?

this could have saved me on so many occasions. +1 on the link. Heres hoping I can try it out tomorrow. Does this work on those bitches that want their login name to reflect their newly wed status?
 
OMG, I am so thankful I am not alone when dealing with crap like this. The hyphenated ones drive me up the freaking wall.

+2 for the link. Gonna be very useful. Will it allow migration of profiles on a machine that has never been connected to a domain after joining a domain?

I have one user with a laptop that is in WORKGROUP. After upgrading it to Vista Ultimate I know need to join it to SBS 2008. I am concerned that once I join the domain I am not sure if the profile will migrate.

-Flake
 
this could have saved me on so many occasions. +1 on the link. Heres hoping I can try it out tomorrow. Does this work on those bitches that want their login name to reflect their newly wed status?

what exactly do you mean?
if their username has changed, due to a name change, yes, you can point the profile folder to the new username (although changing just the username does not change the SID on the user object, so it should still use the same profile folder).


and PornFlake, yes it will do just that.


you can even rename the profile folder, if you'd like, then check the "show unassigned profiles" and it will display the renamed profile folder, since it may no longer be linked to a SID, and you can re-associate that folder with a new/different/whatever username, wether it be a local account or domain account.

edit: I've never used it on Vista. It is Vista-compatible, but I have no experience with it under Vista, as we have not (and are not) making the Vista-plunge.
 
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