The environment we have is a single local domain with 4 servers running W2K
AS w/TS and AD. Two of the servers are running Citrix MetaFrame XPa FR1. I
noticed this several weeks ago...

On our Citrix servers when I list User Profiles (under System Properties),
it takes a couple of minutes to show the list. I see 21 profiles listed as
"Account Unknown". I'm leery to just go ahead and delete them. However, they
are taking up considerable space (almost 40MB each) and if I don't need
them, I'd like to free up 800+ MB of space (as well as reduce the backup
time to tape).

Any ideas or thoughts?? Needless to say, my concern is that I would be
messing up one of our senior exec's setup and *that* ain't good for the
career!!.... ;-(
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Regards,
Hank Arnold

The Account Unknown message means they correspond to user accounts which no
longer exist. You can delete them. If you're nervous about losing data,
backup docs & settings first, and then delete them.

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Brian Desmond
Windows Server MVP
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Http://www.briandesmond.com


"Hank Arnold" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The environment we have is a single local domain with 4 servers running
W2K
> AS w/TS and AD. Two of the servers are running Citrix MetaFrame XPa FR1. I
> noticed this several weeks ago...
>
> On our Citrix servers when I list User Profiles (under System Properties),
> it takes a couple of minutes to show the list. I see 21 profiles listed as
> "Account Unknown". I'm leery to just go ahead and delete them. However,
they
> are taking up considerable space (almost 40MB each) and if I don't need
> them, I'd like to free up 800+ MB of space (as well as reduce the backup
> time to tape).
>
> Any ideas or thoughts?? Needless to say, my concern is that I would be
> messing up one of our senior exec's setup and *that* ain't good for the
> career!!.... ;-(
> --
> Regards,
> Hank Arnold
>
>

Brian,

Thanks. Can you expand on "backup docs and settings"?

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Regards,
Hank Arnold

"Brian Desmond [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> The Account Unknown message means they correspond to user accounts which
no
> longer exist. You can delete them. If you're nervous about losing data,
> backup docs & settings first, and then delete them.

Sure. Find your Documents and Settings folder on the server (usually under
C), and make a copy of it. Assuming you're backing the C drive up (or
wherever Documents and Settings is) to tape every night, or similiar, you
shouldn't have to worry about this step.

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Brian Desmond
Windows Server MVP
(E-Mail Removed)

Http://www.briandesmond.com


"Hank Arnold" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:O%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Brian,
>
> Thanks. Can you expand on "backup docs and settings"?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Hank Arnold
>
> "Brian Desmond [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> > The Account Unknown message means they correspond to user accounts which
> no
> > longer exist. You can delete them. If you're nervous about losing data,
> > backup docs & settings first, and then delete them.
>
>