Deleted files reappears in Roaming Profiles

[NO_MSC_NO_MSCP_NO_MSENGINEER]

Hi,


we're using a domain user with adm. permissions in workstations for doing
soft. installations.

Every thing is OK, excepting that we decided to make this users profile a
roaming profile so it contained all the apps. icons, links to very often
used apps, etc...

It is working excepting that when we delete a icon or folder in his desktop
(so, files in his profile) from time to time the files reappears.

This is quite annoying, specially because a helpdesk technician once moved
to the profile a huge directory that from time to time reappears... Anyway,
this is quite annoying!!!!


Is this logical? How can this be solved?

We apply a policy to the workstatiosn so the profile is deleted everytime
the user logs off, but it does nothing... the deleted files remains
somewhere...


Workstations are WIndows xp sp1. Network is Win2000 Active Directory.

Thanks. Greetings from Barcelona.

 

[Greg Stigers]

Any chance that more than one user is logged on with this account? Say User
A & User B are both logged on at the same time. User A deletes some icon,
then logs off. User B subsequently logs off. Because his desktop had the
icon, the roaming profile retains it.

You might want to rethink having admins share one account. And, you might
want to look at automating software installs...

 

[NO_MSC_NO_MSCP_NO_MSENGINEER]

Yep, I have solved it, it was a problem of the behaviour of roaming
profiles.

When logging off you leave a local copy of the roaming profile in a computer
(unless specified diferently by a GPO) , and when relogging off ther local
profile is **combined **with the server-side stored roamign profile. Then if
you have deleted files in your roaming profile in a different workstation
and logs on a worksdtation where a old local cache profile is stored, the
files can reappear since the profiles are combined.

It is solved by making a new policy that deletes the cache copy of the
roaming profiel when logging off.

However old profiles stored in old workstatiosn can still be a problem, so
I decided to delete the user and recreate it (different SID) (using the
same roaming profile) with the delete cache copy policy enabled from the
beginning.

Yes, we should use more often software distribution software, but we use
this user for home made ERP programs that our developpers are not able to
make 'msi' or unattended setup compliant... so they install it by hand...
(we have SMS for deploying 'normal' software)


Thanks for your answer!!!!