Change/Repair domain user SID on workstation?

[doug.masters]

Scenario:

1. Admin (not me!!!) accidentaly deleted a users AD account.
2. Recreated AD account.
3. User profile on workstation now marked as "Account Unknown".

Obviously the user will now get a new domain profile on his
workstation. And since the old profile is marked unknown, we can't
use the copy profile option to restore his settings.

Any way to adjust the SID either in AD or on the workstation to get
that old profile functioning?

 

[doug.masters]

Found this over in the Win2000 group. Not answer to my question, but
resolves problem 3.


The user profiles are normally stored under "C:\Documents and
Settings\<username>". The standard profiles that should be there are
Administrator, All Users, and Default User. The rest are profiles that
were
created for new logons and have the same name as the username.

See if there is an username under here that cannot be accounted for in
the
Start -> Settings -> User & Passwords applet. If there is one, maybe
it's
your old one. You should be able to review the folder hierarchy in
this
unknown profile folder in Explorer to see if it is similar to your
current
profile folder. If so, you could:

1. Log on as Administrator, not as your own username. This would
ensure you
have rights to change file permissions and that you're not trying to
change
the profile that you are currently using.
2. Rename your current profile folder, say from "myname" to
"myname_OLD".
3. Rename the unknown profile folder to "myname".
4. Right-click on the "myname_OLD" folder, select Properties, and check
its
permissions under the Security tab.
5. Right-click on the "myname" folder (for the unknown account) to make
sure
it has the same permissions.
6. Logoff the Administrator account and logon under your own account to
see
if you get the profile you expected. (If it screws up you can log back
on
as Administrator to rename "myname" back to its original unknown
account
name and "myname_OLD" back to "myname").

Basically you're sliding in one profile directory in place of another.