Copying Administrator Profile to Standard User

[fviens]

I am bringing workstation into a domain. As part of this process, I am
copying the user profile for the local account to the newly created
domain account profile. Some users had a local administrator account. I
want to make their domain profile a standard user. When I do that, the
newly created account is very sluggish (login, Internet Explorer,
etc.). However, when I make the domain user account a member of the
local administrator group, these problems disappear.

I am kind of reluctant to grant admin rights to the users. What can I
do?

Thanks.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Look in the logs via Event Viewer to see if there is anything recorded that
may provide a clue. Also have the user logon [maybe with a test account] to
see if a standard profile based on the default user profile causes the same
problem or not. Offhand I can't imagine why Internet Explorer would run slow
as that should work fine for any user. If the user has any logon scripts
then those could be the problem if the logon script needs administrator
group membership to run correctly. Often such scripts can be run as startup
scripts to avoid such a problem or other changes can be made. You really do
not want to make the user a local administrator if at all possible. ---
Steve

 

[fviens]

Thanks for your reply Steve.

I am not sure I understand everything you are saying. I tried a few
things:

1. I created a local standard test account and copied the local
administrator profile to the test profile. I got the same result - very
sluggish response.
2. I checked the event log - I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
3. I didn't create any local login script.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Interesting. When you created the test user account did the problem with
sluggishness occur before you tried copying the profile to that test user
account? --- Steve