New User Profiles created causing problems

[Guest]

Hi.

We have a problem with user profiles mainly on portable Win XP machines.
Quite recently we made the switch from workgroups to AD and during the
migration we did our best to keep the enviroment as unchanged as possible for
the users.
We did this by changing the registrykey that defines from where the
userprofile reads it's profiledata.
So if a user was named USER1, after the migration the user would have a
userprofile USER1.000
We changed so the USER1.000 used the USER1 profilepath and set the rights so
the domainuser had rights enough to use it.
Everything seemed to work just fine but recently some problems have arrived.

Sometimes when a user has had the computer offline and hooks it up to the
domain network again a new profile is created again ( USER1.001 or USER1.002
and so on ) which means that an administrator has to come a redo the work
with changing the profilepath.
Additionally some users have had problems with more than just
profilepathchanges. Outlook and other programs have lost all their settings
even after redoing the profilepath so that there shouldn't be any problems.

I hope I have managed to describe the problem enough for someone to have an
idea =)

/regards
____________
Hans ||| Volvo

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi.

We have a problem with user profiles mainly on portable Win XP
machines. Quite recently we made the switch from workgroups to AD and
during the migration we did our best to keep the enviroment as
unchanged as possible for the users.
We did this by changing the registrykey that defines from where the
userprofile reads it's profiledata.
So if a user was named USER1, after the migration the user would have
a userprofile USER1.000
We changed so the USER1.000 used the USER1 profilepath and set the
rights so the domainuser had rights enough to use it.
Everything seemed to work just fine but recently some problems have
arrived.

Sometimes when a user has had the computer offline and hooks it up to
the domain network again a new profile is created again ( USER1.001
or USER1.002 and so on ) which means that an administrator has to
come a redo the work with changing the profilepath.
Additionally some users have had problems with more than just
profilepathchanges. Outlook and other programs have lost all their
settings even after redoing the profilepath so that there shouldn't
be any problems.

I hope I have managed to describe the problem enough for someone to
have an idea =)

/regards
____________
Hans ||| Volvo

What do your event logs say?

To be honest, I wouldn't have done what you did - I would have recreated the
profile settings into the new domain profile. There aren't that many things
to customize - if there's a lot, tell the user they'll have to redo it if
it's important. All I care about are Outlook profiles, IE favorites, and any
files they may have stored in the old profile My Documents (which I don't
use; I redirect anyway) or on the desktop (which I don't want them to use
for file storage anyway). The rest? Such as, cute icons? Wallpaper photo of
their kid's bar mitzvah, or their new puppy? They can set that stuff
themselves; obviously they figured out how to the first time.

Or copy the local profile to the domain profile in control panel | system,
while logged in as an admin.

Or try the file & settings transfer wizard.

If you can do one of the above, on one laptop as a test, you'll see whether
you continue to have this problem.