Hi All,
I know this has been discussed several times on this forum and elsewhere, but I have not been able to find any definitive resolutions as yet.
I have a TS2003 - with about 20 users on. I recently changed their local security levels, to normal users, as they were all local admins because of an application which needed it. I managed to update this application, and change all users to be normal users. I then used a basic GPO to further restrict their desktop and other access.
While I was at it, I cleaned up all of their profiles, the Docs and Settings folder was a mess. This server had been migrated from a standalone TS, to a domain integrated TS, so all users had profile duplications with the user.Domain format. I moved all of these profiles elsewhere, logged in as each user individually, then copied over, into the newly created profiles - the desktop, docs and favourites folders - and setup a couple of email accounts.
This worked fine for a day or so. The next day, in the morning, remote users were logging in and getting the local profile not found message. and I got a few TEMP profile folders, and then a few user.Domain profiles being created. The NTUser.DAT file was in use in all of the original profiles.
A reboot resolved this problem temporarily. I researched this problem here, and installed the User Hive Profile Cleanup application. This does not seem to have helped. One further symtom I have found - at night, after all users have logged off - I can log in as any of the users, and the profile loads correctly. However if I wait until the morning, I get the temp profile loading...
I can't see anything in the application logs indicating it is running late overnight.
I would prefer not to have to reboot the server every morning, as they are retail and work all weekend...
Any tips would be appreciated.
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