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Windows Server 2008 R2 User Profile Service Failed to Log On

This is on a domain and is happening on a few of our servers... Any ideas? The accounts trying to log in are domain admins... my account (also a domain admin) does work, however.
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Please post a detailed error from the event log or the exact message you are receiving.
Some details about the domain configuration.
What servers are they trying to logon ? DC's ? Normal servers ? Can they log on on client machines ?
Do you have any GPO's affecting this systems ?
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They are normal servers running exchange 2010.

The Exact error is:

"User Profile Service Failed to Log On"

The users can log onto client machines.
And nothing on the event log ?
You say you are an admin also and you are able to log on. Check the user group membership. Are you in a special group since you can logon and they can't ?
Are you running roaming profile ?
Still missing an answer to this questions :
Can they log on on client machines ?
Do you have any GPO's affecting this systems ? (thinking that you might have a GPO that will deny some privileges)
tried this ? :
To resolve this problem open yourself, follow these steps:

Right click Computer > Properties > Advanced system settings > Advanced tab > Under User Profiles, click Settings > In the User Profiles dialog box, select the profile that you want to delete > click Delete > Apply/OK.

Next open regedit and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Right-click the SID that you want to remove, and then click Delete.

Log on to the computer and create a new profile.
Also check if you have any SID's with .BAK at the end.
Delete them also.
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